We got great news this week!  Our money request for the Maker Space of the Learning Commons was approved. We will be able to start shopping and get that up and running in a few weeks! Yay!! The kids will love it and it will support their mastering of the standards!!

After 4 week of school, it is obvious that everyone has learned the basics of school behavior and is ready to start the learning!

Kindergarten read a silly story this week called Z is for Moose!  it made up laugh. Then we played an alphabet game where we each got a letter of the alphabet and we thought of an animal that started with that letter. Zoo Phonics was a big help, but some friends thought of some great animals on their own.  They did awesome with the ABC's and knowing what came next.

1st grade dug deeper into the differences in reading fiction and non fiction. We talked about how an apple and an orange are both fruits, they are both delicious and good for us, but we have to eat them in different ways.  Then we made the connection that fiction and non fiction need to each be read differently. We looked at Lyle Lyle Crocodile (a fiction story) and Alligators and Crocodiles (a non fiction book) and modeled the way to read each one. 

2nd grade read a Creek Indian Nation story called The Great Ball Game. We talked about how people have always used stories to answer questions. This story told why Native Americans thought birds flew south in the winter.