Reminders for the Week...
- To launch our third and final PBL project ~ All About African Animals! ~ we will be visiting the Woodlawn Park Zoo on Thursday, May 12th. Permission slips went home last week. Those of you who sent your forms and money ($10) back, thank you. If you did not receive one, please email me and I will send home a new copy. Also, if you have a zoo pass, please photocopy both sides and send it in as payment for the field trip! (If you already paid and have a zoo pass, let me know and I will send your payment back to you.) We can take as many chaperones as we we want, so let me know if you can join us. We will leave at 9:45 and be back to QAE by 2:00.
- Talent show sign up! QAE will be having their talent show on May 19th at the QA Community Center. If your child would like to participate please sign up for a "try out" time slot and return the green paper that came home this week.
- Volunteers- We are about to dive into our final project of the year and there may be a few days where I will call for extra volunteers to come help out! Keep an eye out!
- Unfortunately, I will not be at school, Monday April 25th, see you Tuesday! :)
Room 112 tries to be PATIENT when......
Our character trait for April is PATIENCE. Here is what it means to room 112....
How does sanding the wood change it?
How are sawdust and shavings alike and different?
What happens to sawdust and shaving when you put them in water?
How is particleboard made?
Dwankhozi Week
On Monday, Maurice Masala attended QAE for the first time! here and to welcome him to our school for the first time. The week was filled with great conversations with students in grades 3-5 and hands-on learning for students in K-2. The Dwankhozi partnership has and will always be about relationships. Those relationships will grow and change over time as new faces emerge and we say goodbye to old faces, but it will always continue to grow. Having Maurice, and later Idah, visit our school has been a tremendous gift to our partnership. Being able to have a small piece of Dwankhozi here at QAE helps to make it feel more real for the students. Students had so much fun learning more and more about Africa as a country and all the various cultures it has to offer!
This video highlights the week spent with our guests!
This video highlights the week spent with our guests!
Avid Readers, Go On Reading Play Dates!
During Readers Workshop we set aside time for private reading and partner reading. This week we introduced Reading Play Dates!
This is a time when the students can play different games with their books. Students may choose to play school- where they read like the teacher to one another. They may also to choose to go on hunts in books for snap words, play ABC pop it or find words from our word work lessons (this week L blends). They may also choose to act it out. Friends had a blast becoming the characters and using gestures to act out books!
Together we read one of our favorites, Is There a Bird on my Head? from the Piggie and Elephant series. Ms. Huffman was Gerald while the kiddos played Piggie. We had fun reading the "script" and using gestures to act out the characters!
You may choose to play some of these fun games at home for a more active way to read!
Have fun!
This is a time when the students can play different games with their books. Students may choose to play school- where they read like the teacher to one another. They may also to choose to go on hunts in books for snap words, play ABC pop it or find words from our word work lessons (this week L blends). They may also choose to act it out. Friends had a blast becoming the characters and using gestures to act out books!
Together we read one of our favorites, Is There a Bird on my Head? from the Piggie and Elephant series. Ms. Huffman was Gerald while the kiddos played Piggie. We had fun reading the "script" and using gestures to act out the characters!
You may choose to play some of these fun games at home for a more active way to read!
Have fun!
Friday read aloud
As we know, now all level C-G books have the most amazing storylines to follow or the greatest characters to latch onto, so, I am excited to announce that we started Roald Dalh's, Matlida! :) I am omitting some of the language and reminding students as we read about what is Kind, Safe and Fair. This is a great book to correlate with avid readers and will allow students to have deeper conversation around a more complex text. |
At Home Learning Opportunities!
We have completed the Kindergarten Reading Horizons Discovery classroom lessons and am so excited about the progress I am seeing in the students' reading and writing skills, especially in the students who have spent time at home and have completed the on-line lessons and assessments. If your students is still working on this on-line component, I highly recommend that you provide your student with regular time at home to engage in this important literacy practice. Providing this time will allow them to take the computer-based assessments on the software to determine their current literacy understanding and will reinforce the new skills they have learned in class.
To set your student up for this work at home, you need to go to http://www.queenanne.rhdiscovery.com.
Your student’s User ID is their first name
and last initial.
If you have an iPad or tablet, do not use the Reading Horizons Discovery App as it is not yet complete and will not run the full program. Instead, you can download an app for Puffin Academy and then select the Reading Horizons Discovery icon into that app. If you do this, you will need our Site ID, which is queenanne in addition to your students user name. This is how we do it at school. If you need help, feel free to send me an e-mail with questions.
Thanks for helping provide your student with this important home learning time!
Epic!
When students complete their Reading Horizons program, they are able to read books on Epic! during our Word Work on-line learning time in class. This new program has been a big hit with the kids! You can all check it out at home by going to the QAE library resource page and clicking on the Epic icon. Our class username is chuffman@qae.us and our password is readers.
To set your student up for this work at home, you need to go to http://www.queenanne.rhdiscovery.com.
Your student’s User ID is their first name
and last initial.
If you have an iPad or tablet, do not use the Reading Horizons Discovery App as it is not yet complete and will not run the full program. Instead, you can download an app for Puffin Academy and then select the Reading Horizons Discovery icon into that app. If you do this, you will need our Site ID, which is queenanne in addition to your students user name. This is how we do it at school. If you need help, feel free to send me an e-mail with questions.
Thanks for helping provide your student with this important home learning time!
Epic!
When students complete their Reading Horizons program, they are able to read books on Epic! during our Word Work on-line learning time in class. This new program has been a big hit with the kids! You can all check it out at home by going to the QAE library resource page and clicking on the Epic icon. Our class username is chuffman@qae.us and our password is readers.