Dec
15
2011
Mrs. Argus
The kids are very excited for our trip to Mexico! We have been talking about Mexico’s distinguishing characteristics, including culture, animals, climate, and food, and we are ready to share it with you and your families! Please come to our flight after school on Tuesday, December 20th from 6-7pm.
We have a special request for families as winter break approaches… Today, I sent home a green piece of paper with a note card stapled to it. On the note card, please talk with your family about your favorite cookie recipe (holiday or regular!) and write the recipe on the card. We will compile all of our cookie recipes and create a class compilation to share with each family for the holidays. What a sweet treat!
Dec
14
2011
Mrs. Bucher
I cannot even tell you how amazing our time with Sabra was today! We learned the Funga dance and song today! It is a beautiful Swahili song that says, “Welcome, we greet you, you and you. Welcome! Hello! Let us be friends.” The children did such a wonderful job listening, dancing, learning and being engaged while Sabra taught us a lot! It was such a memorable experience so I hope that we can do it again. It was fun because all day long we were singing the Funga song…so great!
I have some pictures, but I will have to show you a couple videos some time soon of the children singing their Funga song welcoming their friends!
Our friends being such great listeners!
Some friends playing the drums!
Dec
14
2011
Mrs. Clark
The books we have read so far as a class...
Over the last two weeks our class has really been excited about chapter books! Each day, while the kids eat snack, we read a chapter or two from our book. This just started last week with Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the UFO. The kids were so into this they asked if we could read another one! By voting, we decided on our next book, The Magic School Bus, Voyage to the Volcano. The kids have loved learning about volcanic eruptions and what the words “molten lava” means! We are about finished with our Magic School Bus book so who knows what will come next!
Dec
13
2011
Mrs. Bucher
Today, I was capturing our friends being good friends to those around them! We are currently making a question…”What is friendship?” out of wire and beads, and then underneath it we will have pictures that I take of our friends being good friends to others. I was proud of our friends today, and I am excited to see more photographs of the children being good friends to each other.
I introduced planning books today in Writer’s Workshop. The thought behind these laminated books is that it is a good way to organize our thoughts and plan a book before we actually make it. Isaac today did a wonderful job of using a planning book to figure out what he wanted to write about. Then, he got a “real” book to start working on adding more detail and words to his book! I look forward to seeing how the planning of books will help our writers!
Sabra Logan is the Founder/Director of Iibada Dance Company. Not only is she the Founder of a dance company, but she has worked in other schools around the city helping children learn various dances. I am so excited because tomorrow morning she will be teaching an African dance called Funga which is a welcome dance from Liberia to our class. She will be in our class for about 45 minutes teaching the dance and a song to go with it. This is such a great experience because it is another way to get that movement that we love during the day! I am excited to show you the pictures tomorrow of our little dancers!
Makayla working hard to create her wire "h" for the question..."What is Friendship?"
Isaac using his planning book to help him organize his thoughts for his actual book!
Mekhi being a good friend to Malachi by listening to him while he is reading his book during Reader's Workshop!
Dec
13
2011
Mrs. Clark
Every Wednesday our class goes to the library. While each week we check out books, we leave them here at school by the request of the librarian. Today was a little different. The kids each got two books to take home to keep. Our school was given books by a program called Reading is Fundamental. So when they went to library today they each got to pick out two of their own books!
The kids were so excited to read their brand new books!
