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| The "Celebrate Me!" projects were very creative and interesting. It was fun learning more about each child. During presentations we focused on speaking clearly and using good eye contact with the audience. Everyone listened so respectfully as classmates spent a few minutes reading their passages and explaining their projects. They are now displayed in the hallway for all to enjoy. If you left click on these photos you can see them in more detail. |
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| We made fractured pumpkins at one of our centers this week. After cutting the pumpkin it had to be put back together like a puzzle and decorated. Each pumpkin ended up having its own unique personality! It was a great project to work on creativity, spatial relationships, and fine motor skills. Other centers included working on math facts and ten facts, a listening center where students listened to How Do Dinosaurs Get to School? and drew their favorite part, making a glyph about being sick, and Word Work with blends and vowel sounds. Throughout the week we have worked on writing. We started with an organizational web and 1st draft and next week we'll do revising and editing. With this writing assignment we are paying particular attention to the topic sentence and concluding statement. In math we struggled a bit with 2-step word problems and missing addends. I know these are difficult concepts for some to grasp but we will keep revisiting them until we master them. Look how well we've done with fact families! In Science we are finishing up our Healthy Choices unit. The study guide will come home Tuesday and the test will be on Wednesday. I think the students are well prepared .  We've started learning about our October Author of the Month, Laura Numeroff. She likes writing circular stories. Ask your child what a circular story is. Enjoy your three day weekend! |
