Happy Saturday to you all on this 3 day weekend. We will not have school on Monday due to Labor Day. I hope you are all able to enjoy an extra day off.
We started cultural this last week and focused on history. With level 1’s we started a short journal and practiced days of the week and months of the year. With level 2’s we learned about the 3 forms of matter and the energy that scientist theorize were in play during the creation of the universe. With level 3’s we learned about the eras and laid them out on a timeline. We were also able to learn more about Maria Montessori on her birthday, August 31, and spend some time with Ms. Kirsten’s class making a timeline of Dr. Montessori’s life. We will be learning about North America the first part of the year, so yesterday we did a brief introduction of it and the countries in it.
We are excited to be starting music, P.E., and keyboarding (for level 3’s) this week. We will also be starting our group/level lessons during work cycle. We are also excited to have the author Gary Hogg visit lower el on Thursday. If you don’t know much about Gary or haven’t heard of him, check out his website http://garyhoggbooks.com/. Gary is a fun children’s book author and a great guy. It should be a fun week.
I keep forgetting to share that every Friday is jean Friday. Students can now were jeans on Fridays but their shirts should still be solid with a collar. We also had our first pizza Friday yesterday. Just a reminder, if you order pizza for your child you might also want to send something like yogurt or a granola bar as well. Most of the time one slice of pizza is not enough for the kids.
As always, thanks for all you do and all your support and patience.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.