Announcements:
Material-making Sign-up (Sign-up to help with making materials the classroom needs)
November 13th Timeline Home Projects Due/ November 16th Timeline Project Presentations to the class groups
November 14th @ 6 pm Class Game and Pizza Night – Come have some fun with your child and his/her classmates! Sign up here if you’d like to help with the planning.
Good day, all! I hope you thoroughly enjoyed our Fall Festival on Friday; I sure did. I got to enjoy dunking by both our own classroom students and many others. Our students certainly enjoyed dunking me and watching me get washed by ice cold water!
In class news, we have been learning methods of doing historical research, the calendar (months, years, centuries, B.C./A.D., B.C.E./C.E), and well-known people in history. We have also been wrapping up knowledge of our Work of Water in science.
In geography, students are learning more concretely their continents, what countries are included there and the people who live there. The Fundamental Needs of Humans are very relevant here and would be a wonderful dinner topic: how people all over the world have the same needs and how they fulfill those needs.
Students are also delving into their individual math, language, and handwriting goals. In handwriting, some students have started using watercolor paints to practice their hand control; another suggestion has been to do structured art, where students look at a particular item and draw what they see, not what they think they see. It can get tricky but we’ve had some fun trying it in class.
We’ve gotten a new assistant this week! His name is Carl and he is amazing. We will all be aiding him in acclimating to our environment and learn our routines. The students were wonderful in showing him works and teaching him how to do certain activities in the classroom this past Thursday and Friday. So excited to have him with us!
We have many things coming up. Be sure to re-check the announcements and get in on helping your child’s classroom. Thank you!