This week students have been:
- thinking critically about art by choosing two famous self-portraits and talking about similarities and differences. Students used art specific vocabulary such as cubism, realism surrealism as well as described different art methods to support their observations.
- developing their art skills through online lessons focusing on specific portrait features, including face shape and eyes.
- solving math problems that include growing patterns, and developing their reasoning and communication skills through pictures and words, explaining how they extended the pattern, and what the pattern rule was.
- applying strategies for spelling, including using tools in the classroom such as letter/sound visuals, brainstorm webs, sentence stems, word lists and personal dictionaries to write their October letter home.
- identifying personal areas of growth for their monthly goals.
- performing and refining movement skills in soccer to include dribbling, trapping, passing and pick ups with a teammate.
In your child's mail folder this evening, please find:
- Poetry Folder: Students LOVE Maurice Sendak's Chicken Soup with Rice poem, and we hope you do too!
- October Letters: Thank you for writing your child back in September. It gave them incredible motivation for their October letter. Please take a moment to write back again this month.
Reminders for next week:
- Gymnastics begin on Monday. Please see the additional blog note regarding gymnastic safety.
- Library exchange on Tuesday.
- Please ensure you are exchanging your child's Home Reading once a week.
Now that the cold weather is here, please see the additional blog note regarding BLUE DAYS.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone, and remember to set your clocks back!
Ms. Thomas
