Weekly Recap and Tidbits

Tidbits

  1. Our next field trip is Thursday, April 18th at the Megaplex in Ogden to see this year’s Earth Day movie about penguins. Students need to be dropped off and picked up at the Megaplex. I will be sending home a permission slip and information letter on Monday. We are still looking for 2 more chaperones for our class! Please let me know if you would like to attend. We are also coordinating rides across the Lower Elementary classrooms. If you are willing to drive other students that may not have a ride to the theater, you can sign up here: https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/okoqm. These drivers will be meeting at North Shore to take any extra students. Also, the following is from Ms. Jalee, who has coordinated our field trips this year: “With this field trip, we will be going slightly over on our field trip budget. Ms. Autumn said we can ask parents to donate with cash or check directly to the office for the Lower El field trip fund. It is not required that they donate but would be greatly appreciated.”
  2. For anyone interested in ordering spring pictures (the order form went home with your student last Friday), they will be held on Wednesday, April 10th. Please have your child bring the order form back with them so that I know to send them to pictures. Only children who will be ordering will go to have their pictures taken.
  3. We are getting into the “Spring Fever” time of year where our students are more active and excited. While this can be a fun time where they are very engaged in learning, it can also mean an increase in misunderstandings, strong feelings and the need for peace talks. We do our best in class to support the children in resolving their issues with each other and working through their feelings and actions, but we inevitably don’t notice everything happening with everyone all the time. If you feeling something is happening with your student that needs to be brought to my attention, please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to step in and help wherever I can.

Weekly Recap

The week before Spring Break was busy! Our 3rd graders are preparing for the state testing coming up in a month and our 2nd and 1st graders continue to make progress. It has made our classroom bustle with energy! As always, our cosmic education lessons (botany, zoology, history and geography) are some of our favorites, and as the math and reading skills of everyone in the room increases, it allows us to do more and understand more with these fun subjects. We are learning more about South America (including Ms. Pat teaching us some Spanish every morning) and getting more into botany now that we have plants growing again.

For Writer’s Workshop on Friday mornings, I have been trying to alternate reading books about social skills and peace education with more academically-oriented (but still fun) books. A few weeks ago, we read “My New Friend Is So Fun!” and talked as a class about how we might feel sad, jealous or upset when our best friend or a good friend chooses to play with someone else. The children offered suggestions about how they might respond and they had some great ideas about how to not be upset when this happens. Last week, we read “Commotion in the Ocean” and talked about different types of animals in the ocean as well as some of the different forms of poetry in the book. After we have our class discussions, the children then write about what we read and their own personal response to it. This week, we will be reading “We Are All Wonders” (a shortened, picture-book version of the popular book “Wonder”) and writing about how we can be inclusive and see the good in everyone.

As always, thank you for everything you do!

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