Saturday, November 10, 2012

Happy November!

Hello!

What a wonderful week we've had here at school!  I hope you all are enjoying your weekend together!  The students have been getting back into the groove of their regular routines and moving past the excitement of Halloween.  Here are some of the things the friends have been thinking about.

Nyala brought in a pack of "Silly Bands" to share with the class.  She wanted to split them up so that everyone could have some, so during Open Choice Time, friends worked together to figure out how many each person would get.  They started by using cuisenaire rods to represent each student in our class, and passed out a Silly Band to each "student" one by one to make sure everyone had the same amount.






On a new day, friends checked their work and found a few inconsistencies in the last groups work that they corrected.  They then started putting the correct amount into jars and started labeling each one with a students' name.  This turned out to be a challenge because some friends wrote the same person's name on two different jars.  This made them have to go back and check their work and figure out which student still did not have a name on their jar.  They later found that using our Name Cards for Songs and Poems was a great tool to use to check who was missing!







We ended our week with a light shower, bringing on a beautiful rainbow overlooking our school.  Lisa, our 8th grade teacher, took this picture before school started


This inspired many students to think about rainbows and brought up some probing questions.

What is a rainbow?
Where do they come from?
Why do they happen?

This topic also led to the question  of whether or not there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?  Some students plan on drawing their theories about these topics in the following days.

At the end of our Friday, we met up with our 8th Grade Buddies and met our partners.  The students went on a Walk and Talk to get to know each other a little bit better as we went to the park.  It was so fun to see how excited both the Kindergarteners and the 8th Graders were to get to meet their Buddy!


In other news, the 4th grade is doing a Food Drive and have place a box in our class to collect any donations of canned goods or dry goods.  The drive will go on for the rest of next week and will be donated to a local food bank.

Enjoy your day!
Love, Gaby

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