Last week was a wonderful week. Our highlight was our visit from local author, Gary Hogg. We have been reading one of his book in our classroom and were really excited to have him come and visit our classroom and help us improve our writing. Third grade students were also invited to an additional workshop with him. My favorite moment was inviting one of our second grade students, who has a strong love of writing, to the additional workshop. Our cultural lessons were focused on history. Level 1 students focus on the concept of time and have been reviewing days of the week, months of the year, and completing a monthly calendar. Level 2 students focused on the birth of our universe and the different states of matter. Level 3 have started their focus on the time line of life. They worked together to build the large time line and focused on how old the earth was before life began. I have been busy completing math and reading assessment. This has been an added obstacle to our regular work cycle and a key part of our normalization. I am pleased to announce they are now complete and we are working hard toward a full regular work routine. The reading team is still working to complete our dibles testing and we are gearing up to send home reading assignments for students who are reading at or below a first grade reading level, so please be on the look out for these assignments. These reading assignments will be in addition to our monthly home projects. Reminder that these are due and should be brought in as soon as they are completed.
Reminder that you can visit our classroom page at anytime to see our monthly projects and view our dates for field trips, etc. We will be adding a few more dates as students complete their ideas for service learning opportunities and such, but this does offer a good idea of what is coming. I also wanted to extend an invitation to any families or friends who have lived or visited countries in Europe. We will be studying Europe between now and winter break and I would love to invite guests into the classroom who have personal experience.
As always, if you have any questions, concerns, or celebrations, please send me and email.
One last thing, if you have magazines that are classroom appropriate that we could use for some cutting work, would you please send them in. We will be using them for finding letters. Thank you.