HAPPY NEW YEAR! I was so glad to see your children this week! They were missed dearly. I hope everyone had a great break!
Challenging ourselves to wear broccoli necklaces for 24 hours straight just like the main character in our novel study this week!
Thank you to Cora’s mom, Stephanie McMaugh for being our MYSTERY READER this week!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMESON!!!!
What LEARNING and GROWING went on in room 217 this week:
Academics
ELA: Students read and discussed How to be a Perfect Person in just Three Days by Stephen Manes. Students challenged themselves to try the activities Dr. Silverfish recommended to be a perfect person – including wearing a broccoli necklace for 24 hours! This book included a wonderful moral that was a great way to start our new year. PERFECTION is impossible – practice makes progress not perfect. We also studied the suffixes and morphemic transformations. Lastly, we worked with story elements.
Writing: Friendly letter writing
Math: MONEY!
Social Studies: Government, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Students of the week:
Isla and Julian
Thank you for being showing responsibility this week!
Important Dates:
- 1/19: Report Cards go home. Please sign and return envelopes.
- 1/24: Vocab Parade
- 1/26: 100th day of school!
Reminders:
1/12: Stephanie McMaugh – Mystery Reader, 9:00-9:30
1/26: Heather Sostrom – Mystery Reader, 9:00-9:30
As part of our school’s celebration of Literacy Week, we read Miss Alaineus, A Vocabulary Disaster. In the book, the main character misunderstands one of her weekly vocabulary words which leads to an embarrassing situation in front of her entire class. But by the end of the story, she triumphs with huge success. All of the students in the book create a word costume to illustrate understanding of a chosen or assigned word so we thought it would be fun to have our own Vocabulary Parade. Please help your child complete his/her word costume with a poster, puppet, hat, crown, paper, bag, sheet or sandwich board. We will share our words on Wednesday, January 24th. Thank you for all you do to support making learning fun in our classroom.
