Here are some housekeeping items:
- There is skiing at Cochran's tomorrow.
- Thank you to those of you who have had a chance to donate to our Big Basket Raffle (the theme for our classroom is Party Palooza) Any donation big or small is welcome. See attached for more info.
- Fun Night is tomorrow (Friday)
- Jump Rope for Heart is on Friday, March 28th. Even with the smallest of donations, your child can qualify to jump. Email if you have any questions.
- The WSD Variety Show will take place next Friday night (3/21). Daylight Savings. I highly recommend it. It is a wonderful expression of community and a strong gesture of support for our kids who are daring to perform! Tickets go on sale at WCS next Monday. They sell out quickly. Call WCS for details.
On the academic front:
- Students are hard at work on their "All About" books. Some are writing "How to..." manuals while others are writing "All about Dogs" or "All about Burping a Baby, etc. I expect we will finish them mid-week next week.
- In Science, students are beginning their "Tunnel Books" in art on either the Desert or the Tundra. Tunnel Books don't have words, but instead have layers of visuals. They telescope out so there are three scenes that overlay each other with successively-wider paper frames. They're really something.
At technology students are working this week with a program called Kidspiration: it puts your ideas into a web form -- great for brainstorming. Our central idea is Regions/Biomes . This is then connected out to the four biomes we are studying (Ocean, Rainforest, Desert, and Tundra.) Students then link to animals and plants that live in each region. We will continue to work on this next week.
Tomorrow, as part of the upcoming Kids' Issue of the Williston Observer, your children will be writing to the following prompts:
- My favorite thing about Spring is...
- A friend in need is...............
- If there's a will there's..............
- You can lead a horse to water but....
- A friend in need is...............
- If there's a will there's..............
- You can lead a horse to water but....
Unfortunately, not all will get published, but they will be fun to do, and you will certainly see them at Reading Restaurant.
- We also finished reading all the Red Clover Books and we voted for our favorite one. Ask your child to tell you which book he or she voted for.
- We also finished reading all the Red Clover Books and we voted for our favorite one. Ask your child to tell you which book he or she voted for.
- Sharing for this week has been on "An Injury I Have Had." I've heard lots of squeals of horror... and squeals of delight.
- Editing: I have been challenging students to edit my Morning Letter to them. They have done a great job fixing spelling, adding missing letters, periods, and capitals. When you next write a note to your child, try deliberately making some mistakes and see if he or she can edit it. I was saying the other day, "Never, Never, NEVER randomly throw an apostrophe on to words that end in S... like Hand me those pencil's." I told them, "You'll send me to an early grave." So, be sure to put lot's of apostrophe's in all the note's you write to your kid's and see if they can recognize and discover your mistake's.
- Four Winds last Friday was a ball. We learned all about how trees' buds contain all the leaves for the following spring. We learned about how trees have alternating or opposing branches, and we learned how to make a model of tree branches and buds out of pretzels, raisins, and cream cheese (more squeals of delight/horror).
- Self-Portraits: have you noticed your child's self-portrait hanging in the halls of ABS?
- Daylight Savings: isn't it nice having more sun in the afternoon? And won't it be nice when our kids start getting enough sleep again? Like maybe midweek next week?
Have a nice weekend, everyone.
Mr. Bolger
