School Assembly

Hello,

We had a school wide assembly this afternoon to celebrate reaching 250,000 minutes read school-wide over the past five weeks.  Many teachers presented a reader's theater on stage.  They read Daisy Head Mayzie by Dr. Seuss. 

Just before the assembly we met with our third grade lunch buddies.  They came to our room to hear some fairy tales.  Each student read one of their favorite classics to their buddy.  It seemed to go smoothly.  It is great seeing our kids as role models.  They handle it very well.

In art class, the kids are making ink prints and clay people in the tradition of the far east.  You might want to ask them about what they are learning in there.  It seems really neat. 

My math class is handling bar modeling with simple equations and vice versa.  Tonight, they have a little more practice writing the equations of the models.  Some were able to write word problems based on the models in class, so they shouldn't have any trouble tonight.

In WWF wrestling, I mean voting, the Three-Toed Sloth clobbered the Arctic Fox and the Emperor Penguin took care of the Amur Leopard.  We learned about the sloth and the fox from the students whom had nominated them, but were disappointed not to hear anything about the penguin or leopard.  I think the penguin won't make it past the next round without some major research getting done.  It was a good time for me to talk about "required" and "optional" work.  We all win when students do optional work and come in and share.  Students only doing the minimum don't add much to our learning.  Last night was an easy homework night to boot. 

That said, ask your child when their nominated animal will be voted upon.  Will they teach us anything about the animal?  We can hope.

Thanks for reading.

Mr. Shea