Here's a look at what is going on in our room:
Art/ Science:
Students read about invertebrates in our National Geographic magazines. Then they created vertebrates - using their names as skeletons.
Our volunteers during reading time have made it possible for us to incorporate some great reading activities for the students. Sometimes students are able to play a word game (like Apples to Apples)and other times they get to read their social studies books in small groups.
World Languages:
We are lucky to have so many families in our room who speak languages other than English. We thought we'd put this to good use by learning some of these languages. Currently, we are collecting ways to say, "Good Morning". We have learned, "Gud Morgan" (Swedish) and "Buenos Dias" (Spanish). If your family knows a way to say good-morning in a different language, we would love to have your child share it. Just be sure to write it down for them, so we get the spelling correct.
Also... if you are able to come in and give a little mini-lesson on your language... we would love that. We already have two folks signed up! (thank you Shuko and Marianela!)
Field Trips:
We are planning two out of school field trips (more to come on these later) and some in-school field trips. One in school field trip program is Nature vision....where a naturalist come to the classroom to give our students a hands on scientific learning experience. It is like an in school field trip for the kids. We have registered for three different topics this year. They include Formula Fossils (Dec. 4th), the Water Cycle (Feb. 19th), and Investigating Insects (May 14th).
Each of these programs is used to enrich and
extend our students scientific learning.
The fee for this in-school program per child is $8 which covers the cost
of the instructor and the supplies they use in the activity.
Please send in either a check (made out to Carl Sandburg) or
cash. Thanks.
