Conferences are Coming Quick!

Hello parents and welcome back! It has been quite a while since my last blog and I do apologize for that. It was hard to start projects, let alone finish them when we had 2 days of school 3 days off 3 days of school 7 days off! I am hoping that we are in the clear now and can get back into the swing of things! With that being said there is only one week left until conferences and we are going full speed ahead! 

Rainbow Magic Assembly

On Friday we had the amazing privilege of watching the Rainbow Magic Dance Company perform a wide range of dances. They started with a hip hop dance on hover boards (it was as awesome as it sounds!) and ended with a traditional African dance. The kids loved it and even got to go up on stage to learn the electric slide! It was an amazing experience! 

Students dancing on stage!

Traditional African dance

Arctic Animal Study

All month long students have been engaging in an Arctic Animal study where they will learn about 9 different animals from the Arctic. Students have been gathering all the information they can about each animal and tracking it in the fact book. From labeling pictures of each animal to writing fun facts about them students have been so engaged and loving learning about these amazing animals. This week we will finish up with our last 2 animals and finish off our study by having students write an opinion piece about their favorite arctic animal! Stay tuned for their finished projects next week!

In STREAM students made snowy owl masks!

A student labels the arctic hare in her fact book.

Handwriting

A new focus for us this month has been handwriting. Many students still use all capital letters when writing or intermittent capital letters among lowercase. Through our writing and focused handwriting time (both on iPads as seen below and on paper) students have been working to make their handwriting more legible and in the correct case! We will continue this work into February as well.

A student uses a stylus to practice their handwriting on iPads

Well that is all for now! Excited for this last busy week with these amazing kiddos before I get to share all of their amazing work with you at conferences!

Smiles,

Miss Adams