Season’s Greetings to You and Your Family, and Best Wishes for the New Year! Read-A-Thon Caring The Student Council sorted and donated the school’s Lost and Found clothing to the fire victims. We appreciate the Student Council’s effort, care, and leadership in taking care of others, and also for cleaning up our Lost and Found bin. Thanks to Faye Mettler, who is also one of our science teachers, for working with the Student Council. Spotlights on Our Learning TK-K- One important component to reading is learning about letter names, sounds and putting them together to make a word. That is what our TK and K students are learning. Teachers call this segmenting and blending sounds. Some students do this out loud because they need to hear it, while others can do this silently. 1stgrade- The first graders are doing a great job using the base 10, subitizing numbers, and explaining their mathematical thinking. It is wonderful to hear students discuss about what they are doing and how they are solving the math with each other. 2ndgrade – Teachers coordinated a day of fun and learning about various holidays when students from all 4 second grade classrooms were assigned to be with students from other classrooms. They rotated through all four classrooms playing games, reading, engaging in arts and crafts activities. 3rdgrade- Can you drop and egg and not break it? Ask the third graders and they will show you how. Students designed and built an apparatus that could prevent an egg from breaking when dropped from a height of over six feet. You should have heard all the excitement during the egg drops. 4thgrade- Students sang beautifully at last Thursday’s grade level performance of “December in Our Town.” It was wonderful to see families, grandparents, and everyone there. Our MUR was full. Thank you to the fourth grade teachers and Judy Ryken. Good job everyone! 5thgrade- I wish I had teachers who could scaffold instruction and show me how to do things as well as the teachers we have. As a part of the writer’s workshop, students learned to do research about their topic, take notes, sort their ideas into categories, write a flash draft, and that is just half way through the writing process. Students are working on writing an opinion paper. In pre-algebra, students could concretely see how one side of the equation equals to the other side by using manipulatives. Maneuvering the manipulatives around and balancing the equation helped students solve for the unknown variable. Hour of Code- Students, TK- 5 grades, were motivated and engaged in exploring ways to create and design with coding. I’m impressed by their ability to design a scenery with graphics that could move, change background, blink, and make sounds. The best part is they did not need my help. I was actually learning from them. Science Fair Kick-Off Assembly: Wow, what an amazing presentation by Michael Meneghetti, a retired science teacher and the husband of our science teacher, Julia Meneghetti. The performance was like a magic show, only we know there is no magic. It is purely science? Early Dismissal for Dec. 16- 20 Warmest Wishes,
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