October 7

We had an excellent presentation by the author Hazel Hutchins this morning.  She was very entertaining and informative about being an author.  She was an inspiration to many of our students to become writers.  After the presentation, the students made a list in their Daily 5 notebook of story writing ideas.  We discussed that even everyday activities can even be made into a story with a little exaggeration and imagination.

Our grade 3 students will begin the SLA's tomorrow morning and we will continue to work on these over the next few weeks.  Grade 4 students will continue to do regular activities such as Daily 5 while the grade 3's work on SLA's.

We completed our fall art project in our art journals and they look awesome! It was very exciting to learn how to use oil pastels to create a fall picture.  The students reflected on their art and shared three parts of the art that they feel they did well and are proud of.  We will begin our good copy of our fall writing to add to the back of this project.

Please remember to read every night for 15-20 minutes and to go on Mathletics to practice basic math skills.

Enjoy the great weather tonight!