Love Was In The Air!

Of course, last week was all about LOVE as we celebrated Valentine's Day on Friday! We talked a lot about kindness, friendship, and ... REGRET! Our students really enjoyed reading the book Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson. We also worked on adding detail and depth to our writing pieces as we wrote "love letters" to random people in the class. Once again, all of the students impressed me with their ability to open their hearts and write with intention! The results are quite touching and can be seen on our bulletin board outside of our classroom, but here are a few fantastic examples:

 

In Art we created some gorgeous collages, inspired by an idea from Ms. Henson, who kindly helped us with this project! Look at these amazing Chinese city lines...

 

Please note, that there is a math quiz scheduled for Thursday, February 20, which will assess the students' understanding of the relationship between fractions and decimals (tenth and hundredth only)!

Also, just a reminder that this coming Friday, February 21 is a ProD Day and schools will be closed!

 

I would like to close with a great poem written by Fraser during Literacy Week:

 

RAIN

 

Drip Drop

On the window

Drip Drop

On the roof

When the rain stops

And the kids come out to play

They hop and skip and jump in the puddles all day

And when they get cold

Because the rain has come again

Drizzling and Drazzling

Quenching the thirst of the grass and plants

Softening the ground for the ants

RAIN.

 

 ~ by Fraser