Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Happy birthday to Dr. Seuss this past Friday!  We kicked off our week long study of Dr. Seuss with some of our own Cat in the Hat hats and we checked out some of his books.  We are excited for a week of all things Seuss!  This week in honor of our special author we will have a Dr. Seuss Spirit Week.  Please see the list of events below as we learn more about this great author.  It should be lots of fun!

 Monday: Fox in Socks Day...wear silly or mismatched socks
            Tuesday: Green Eggs and Ham Day...wear the color green
           Wednesday: Wacky Wednesday...wear your wackiest hairdo and/or outfit to school
            Thursday: The Cat in the Hat Day...wear your favorite hat to school
            Friday: Read My Shirt Day...wear a shirt that others can read

Don't forget to check out our high school theater department's production of Seussical this week if you have a chance.  It ties in perfectly with our author, and is sure to be a fantastic show!  I will include the ticket link for you below.  

This past week we studied the author Eric Carle.  We learned that he was born in 1929.  He is the author and illustrator of most of his books.  Most of the characters in his books are animals, and he often writes about things in nature.  He paints tissue paper to make collages for lots of his illustrations, and likes to use many colors.  In our centers this week we painted tissue paper with glue to create a chameleon and wrote about what makes us unique.  We made our grouchiest faces, just like the Grouchy Ladybug, and wrote about what makes us grouchy.  We created a book about The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and worked on writing the days of the week.  Finally, we explored the seeds of many different fruits and vegetables .  We looked at the seeds of kiwi, bananas, strawberries, cucumbers, tomatoes, apples, snap peas, blueberries, grapes and blackberries.  We determined which seeds were the smallest and biggest.  We also determined which food had the most seeds.  Students were also invited to taste these foods if they would like.  We were so excited to see so many of them try some new foods.  A HUGE thank you to all of you who sent food in for this center.  It was a huge hit!  We also did a science experiment with our book buddies using Carle's book, The Little Cloud.  We used shaving cream, water and food coloring to make rain in a cup.  We learned that when clouds get heavy/full this is when the rain comes out.  We had so much fun exploring this concept with our book buddies!  

It was so good to see so many of you at math night on Wednesday.  Thank you to everyone who was able to join us to learn more about how we run our math workshop.  It was so much fun watching the students teach all of you how to play our math games.  This week we also began exploring the concept of addition.  We used jewels as counters and had the students create different combinations of ways to make five.  This coming week we will begin range cards, where students will work on fact families and building their fact fluency with addition.  We will use a variety of manipulatives to work on this concept.  

In literacy we introduced the strategy of using our "eagle eyes" when reading.  The eagle helps us remember that good readers use the pictures to help him/her figure out tricky or unknown words.  The pictures and words should match, just like when we write!  We practiced this during reader's workshop, and students were able to identify places in books where the picture helped them solve a word.  During our writer's workshop this week we introduced journal writing.  We revisited the book My Map Book.  We talked about how writers often get their ideas from other books.  These are called mentor texts.  Students could use My Map Book as a mentor text and create a map on the first page of their journal, or they could choose to write about any topic they wanted.  Journals are for us to write our thoughts and interests in, and so students were/are allowed to choose the their topics when they write in their journals.  I was so impressed with how well they did with their writing.  We will continue to write in these each week.  

CSD ArtSpace Theater  March 7-11 Tickets now on sale through this link

Upcoming Events

March 6 - Love and Logic Class 8:30 am

March 7-11 - Seussical

                 

March 13 - Love and Logic 8:30 am

March 14 - ASE session 3 ends

March 15 - School in Session (Snow Make up Day)

                

March 16 - School in Session (Snow Make up Day)

March 19 - ASE session 4 begins

March 20 - Love and Logic class 8:30 am

March 21-24 - The Little Mermaid performance by the Middle School students

March 27 - Love and Logic class 8:30 am

Parent Safety Meeting 3:30 pm and 6:30 pm HS Blackbox

March 30 - Spring Break begins

Our middle school students will be performing The Little Mermaid Jr.  They always do a fantastic job with their shows, and they are very kid friendly.  Please see below if you would like to buy tickets to the show.  

Little Mermaid, Jr

Come join us under the sea with Ariel and her sea creature friends in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Jr. Performances are March 21st through 24th in the High School ArtSpace Theater. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students.

March 21st @ 7pm, March 22nd @ 7pm, March 23rd @ pm & 7:30pm, March 24th @ 4pm & 7:30pm

Get your tickets here