TWAS October 13

Hello Everyone,

I hope that you all have had a fun, if fast, week!

As always, it has been a hopping week around here that ended in a successful and wonderful club Friday.  All of the students confidently and independently headed off to their clubs and returned with lots of smiles and fun club stories to tell.

This week in Language arts we continued to work on strong sentence writing and oral storytelling.  The students pulled from the memory, fact and imagination portions of their brain pocket to create some very exciting Thanksgiving tales. We also worked on the performance part of storytelling with a bit of charades. 

Our science inquiry projects are continuing to come together and the students are beginning to use rubrics to assess their own work. I really impressed with the honesty and desire to revisit work, after these self-assessments. 

Thank you everyone who was able to help fill out the family/name history sheets that went home last week.  It has been so fun to see all of the stories coming in.  Work has begun on the trees (they are looking incredible) and we are hoping to begin adding name plaques next week.

We are shaking things up a little with math this week.  Though we continue to run through math stations working on problems and patterns we have also added in some sudoku, code and puzzles.  Even though these creative mind challenges are tricky, everyone has been willing to try and has taken on these "out of the box" tasks with positivity while demonstrating brilliant teamwork. 

Phys-ed has also required mental flexibility and coordination as the children learned the beginning stages of juggling and coordinated movements.

Music continues to be exciting and ever evolving as Ms. Thomas explains in her following music message:

GENRE of the Week:

This week is going to be slightly different in that we will be focusing on exploring a style of music rather than one artist. Looking back at the artists we have been working with over the past couple weeks, one might notice that they each have one thing in common: all have roots in The Blues. This week we will be enjoying the song writing of old Delta Blues characters such as Robert Johnson, to the Chicago electric styles of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and finally, the late great B. B. King.

One thing is for certain, the majority of popular music from the last 60 (or more) years can somehow trace roots back to the blues. 

Just a reminder that next Thursday evening is literacy week.  I look forward to seeing everyone who is able to fit it into their busy schedules.

I am sure that I am missing many more little bits but will leave the rest to your little ones.  The children have written to you in their own TWAS, again in google drive.

I hope you all enjoy a wonderful weekend.

All the very best,

Mrs. McArthur

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