Get ready for a long post. Things have been
so busy lately that I haven’t had time to update the blog so this post will be two weeks worth of learning.
In Mrs. Skalaban’s class, the kids wrapped up their 5 senses activity by using
apples. They tasted it, looked at it, measured it, smelled it, and even weighed
it. They also learned about Johnny Appleseed and did their September writing.
What a busy Friday it was last week. We had Soaring Skyward and
Mid-Autumn Festival on the same day. I was at school from 6:45 in the morning
until 9:30 at night. In class, we watched videos and read books about different
myths of Mid-Autumn. Our next big event will be Lunar New Year. I will be
sending home a costume form soon so we can order clothes for our show in
February. I need it back as soon as possible because these costumes are coming
from Vietnam so we need to place orders so all costumes can be made in time and
shipped back to Austin. We will probably start practicing our dance starting in
November. I’m still searching around for costume designs and picking out a song
for our performance.
Soaring Skyward was such a busy and hectic day but most of all,
it was FUN! Thank you all for sending your kids to school in our tie-dye
shirts, tennis shoes and a lunch. We have already started planning for next
year’s Soaring Skyward AND Mid-Autumn Festival!
Both classes earned enough links to touch the floor to earn a
party. Skalaban’s kids picked a ice cream party and my homeroom picked a toy
party. The links on the right is Skalaban’s and the one on the left is my
class. Skalaban’s kids actually were a lot behind but caught up and beat my
class. In the picture, you can see that my class only needed one more link to
earn a party and they were able to do it the next day.
We started word problems this week in math. I love doing word
problems because reading the problems works on the kids’ reading skills, builds
vocabulary and it brings out the artist in them! Look at how cute these
pictures are! We only worked on addition problems this week. We will be doing subtraction
this upcoming week.
We worked on our Original Works art creations yesterday. This is
a school fundraiser. Looks at these owls : )
Mrs. Cormack, our Spanish teacher, taught us body parts in Spanish
this week through songs and dancing.
In Social Studies, we learned about the compass rose and also
different bodies of water.
Meet our new class pet!
