Good Sunny Sunday Afternoon! I hope you are all enjoying the day and getting some time outside. I had an early morning practice and was so pleased to see the bright sky when it was over. Here is a review of the week gone by.
The School District has developed a writing screener that all grades in the district were suppose to pilot last week. The screener simply consisted of the kids looking at a picture and then having to write 2 sentences about what they saw. The focus of the screener was to look at sentence structure and grammar, use and mechanic skills of writing. The good news is everyone did well on it. We will do another one in the spring.
The students used this past week to finish up some free writing and group writing activities that they had started. We will start our new writing unit this week. The new unit will focus on opinion writing. We will start the unit with a focus of writing letters about books and our favorite book characters. We will then move into other categories, including our favorite toys. I ask that each child pick out their three favorite toys and have you take a picture of each one. You will then put them into this drive folder. Please drop your child's pictures into the folder with their name. This will help with printing and organization. Please complete this by Friday.
We started a new science unit that focuses on energy with a specific focus on light and sound. Last week we explored the ideas of waves and vibrations. This week we will dive write in to a specific focus on sound and define specific vocabulary that will be used during the unit.
NOTES:
*Our first session of the school's Winter Sports Program will take place on Wednesday. The kids will undoubtedly have a lot of excitement with this. Sometimes a little nervousness may get mixed in too. Please assure your child that we will help them from start to finish. In order to have a smooth process (with getting ready and pick up time) I ask that your child have every piece of clothing, boots, goggles, and any other item labels with their name. This will save you frustration with lost items. Please take the time to do this prior to Wednesday morning.
*When the kids arrive in the morning, they don't bring their skis or snowboards to the classroom. Their clothing will be lined up in the hallway outside of our classroom. Right before we head to the mountain, we will bag up everything they aren't;t using for skiing and place it in the library. Our class' stuff will be placed near Eric's comfy chair in the library.
*There will not be any homework bags or books sent home on Wednesdays (of the winter program).
That is it for now. I hope you all have a great week.
Peace,
Mr. Young
