Happy New Year room 5 families! This month we welcomed a new friend into room 5, had our dance performance and learned some new strategies for solving word problems. Read on below to see highlights from the past few weeks. We spent the first few days back remembering class routines and how we can help each other start of the year feeling good. Below Ms. Dorrance is teaching a social emotional lesson on ways we can help each other feel happy and safe at school. Each time something unkind is said or done to Charlie, our fictional paper friend, it adds a crumple to him. We then talked about how we can un-crumple a friend by asking what they need, using kind words and helping them if they need it. The students also noticed that when they did say kind things to un-crumple our paper friend, Charlie, that the wrinkles never completely went away. Parents can support their child's thinking of kindness and the power of their words by asking, "What can you do if you do say something unkind?" "What does it mean that the wrinkles didn't go away even though you said kind things to Charlie?" We made goals for ourselves for the new year. Some of the goals range from trying new foods to creating things with Legos to reading more challenging books. Below we are creating our 2019 goals. Parents can ask, "What is something you want to learn, see or try this year? Why?" We worked really hard on our dance performance with Coach Cribbs. Below are some pictures from our rehearsal as well as from the dance performance on Thursday for the whole school. Thank you to Flynn for taking the pictures! Parents can ask, "What type of dances did you learn? What was your favorite part of the dances? How did it make you feel to perform a dance for the whole school?" We explored roly pollies! The first grade teachers have noticed that the students love to build bug hotels in the garden area so they thought it would be fun to learn more about the creatures. Below we are sketching what we notice about our roly poly. We then did an experiemtn to learn about what types of environments roly polys prefer - dark and wet! Parents can ask, "What do roly polys look like?" "What did you do to find out what type of environment roly polys prefer?" "How did you know?" Below we are meeting with our high school buddies! We missed them so much! We see our high school buddies once a week on Fridays to practice our reading.
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