Thanks
to all who joined us last Wednesday to make our Thanksgiving bread baking such
a success! We kept Melissa Ricci, Judy Chan-Troidl, Inessa Shur, Polina
Bouriev, Jen Sacchetti and our own Carli Sherman VERY busy with our stations of
4 children making bread FROM SCRATCH! I hope you all enjoyed eating it as much
as the children enjoyed making it.
Laura
Jacques joined us to take pictures, and I have created a slide show for you
from those photos (on the left side of this blog). I also found the slide
show I sent to you earlier this year, and included that link on our blog as
well.
Here
are some impromptu photos of your children enjoying our precious Independent
Reading time:
Writing:
We
are finishing up our Personal Narratives! Students are enjoying the art
of writing, and we will practice and improve our skills in editing this month.
When you see work come home, it may look a little “unfinished” … please
enjoy the content and notice that it will be more and more “polished” as we
move through the year. We have been focusing on many techniques of a good
small moment Personal Narrative… strong leads, showing feelings, using strong
verbs, etc.
Homework:
This
week an activity went home to help your child notice how time in their everyday
lives. Please help them complete AT LEAST one side.
Next
week we will send home an assignment where each child will write a compliment
for their classmates. You can start practicing by giving each other
compliments in your family!
Enjoy the crisp November air!
Deborah
Niles, Elizabeth Nolan and Carli Sherman