SOAR student

Congratulations to Jada, our December S.O.A.R. student.
Thanks for being a great listener and helper in school each day!

Christmas Celebration

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

This Christmas tree is awesome Connor!
We love the creativity with
beautiful ornanments for the tree, real blinking
lights, and the beautiful skirt.
Awesome family project!

Mother Goose Cocoa Shop

Here is a video presentation from our Mother Goose Cocoa Shop activity. The video clips were also posted on our class webpage when we had our performances, however they are not viewable at home at this time due to problems with uploading with our webblender program. The students enjoyed watching these clips in class (but they are a little dark), but reported they could not view them from home. I will let you know when the problem with our webpage is fixed, but please continue to visit our class blog for updates about our classroom activities. Have a wonderful day!

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TheWind

Our current Open Court topic for reading is the wind. We have read a variety of stories about the wind, and we learned some important facts. Ask your child to share with you some of the things they have learned about the wind at home. We made wind socks in class, and experimented to see what happens when the wind blows by pretending the air from the air conditioner unit was the wind blowing outside. The students enjoyed this art project and experiment as you can tell from our pictures.

Turkey Spotlight

These students did an awesome job decorating their turkey's at home for the monthly family project. We sent home Christmas trees for our December family project, and look forward to seeing some more creative works. Keep a watch out for our favorite tree decorations post coming soon! Family projects are due by Tuesday, December 7.

Gotta Keep Reading!

We have had a busy first week back to school after the Thanksgiving Break, and we are so excited about all our students have accomplished during the first semester. We met our schools AR reading goal right before the break, and everyone gathered outside at the end of the day to celebrate. The children had an awesome time singing and dancing with Dr. Rodriguez and Dr. Moody who were leading the reading rally from on top of the school's roof! The children loved seeing this! We are still focused on reading independently and with someone at home or school, so please remember that you can bring your child to curiosity shop on Tuesday and Thursday's to take AR test in the library after school. Also, set aside some time each night for quiet reading together! This week we had a visit from our school guidance counselor, Mrs. Quarles, and she also read and discussed a book with our class about being fair, taking turns, and not always having to be first. It was a really cute story, and the students even helped Mrs. Quarles discover another lesson in the story which was really interesting. Talk to your child about the visit to find out about the lessons they learned from the story, and about their favorite story we've read at school this semester. As always, please feel free to leave us a comment too, about your favorite books you've read together at home as well. Have a great weekend, and don't forget to read a good book together!