What an eventful week we have had! It is hard to know where to start.
On Tuesday, we had our Math Open House. What an incredible success! Thank you all for showing up and playing games with your children, asking questions about our math program Bridges and attending the meeting in the gym. For those of you who missed it, please know that you are welcome to visit our math classroom anytime. Please contact me via email or phone and we will arrange something. We understand that parents are busy with work commitments and coming in early in the morning is hard. Here are some pictures for you to see from this event.
We also celebrated another school-wide Swarm Party this week. Our pre-schoolers taught us how to dance in the gym. What incredible teachers and role-models they were! We had so much fun together.
We also had a very special surprise visit from Kuwait this week. While we were all dancing in the gym, Alexis's dad "snuck" into our school. Her mother and brother joined our class and showed us how to skype with Kuwait, where Alexis's dad has \been stationed for many months. As the camera zoomed out, we all realized that he was not in Kuwait but at our school! Wow, what a surprise! We learned so many things about Kuwait as well. Ask your child. For example, we learned that it actually can get quite cold there, especially at night. Thank you Sam for allowing us to be part of this special day!
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Lastly, I wanted to inform you all that we started a new reading log this week. On Team Harmony, we will follow the dog-sled race "The Iditarod" for the next few weeks. Information went home with the students today so please read the letters. During this Iditarod unit, students are expected to use the Iditarod Reading Logs instead of the regular Reading Logs in the homework folders. I will pack the new reading logs in the homework folders on Mondays. 3 new Iditarod Reading Logs went home today with your child (if you missed this information, all materials are listed on the wiki, under printables, Literacy). Your child is expected to write about at least 3 books per week (just like before). Throughout this unit, the students were assigned a musher,and we will follow this professional dog-sledder until the end of the race. Your child, however, will earn points and "travel" the Iditarod trail (just like his/her musher) by reading books and writing about them. Since the Iditarod race starts during our vacation, we decided to send home the new reading logs in case your child wishes to start this week. There are 24 check-points in total. Your child does not have to complete 24 reading logs in the next few weeks, but if he/she wishes to read extra and write about the books, we encourage that. The more books your child reads and the more books your child writes about (using the new Iditarod reading log), the farther he/she will travel on the map. There are some special prizes associated with the check-points as well, to encourage your child to read even more. Ask your child to explain.
Today, in the computer lab, the students explored the official web-site about the Iditarod. The address is www.iditarod.com (I would hyper-link it but blogger does not allow it at the monent). Please explore this incredible site together and read along with the Iditarod Race of 2012!
Have a safe and restful vacation. I will miss the kids!
Regards,
Maria
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