Happy December!
Traducción al español aquí: Diciembre Boletín It's been quite a while since our last newsletter, but we've been working hard in the classroom! Over the last few months we focused on literature through the arts. Our first project culminated with the students creating their own folktales using story boards. We read folktales from Latin cultures such as Mexico, El Salvador, Cuba, and more. The students loved learning about how the different cultures represented their daily lives or made sense of their surroundings. We broke into 4 small groups and each child created a part of their group's stories and their incredible artwork and stories written are displayed in our main hallway. This last month we read stories about Indigenous cultures and how they told stories through the art of clay pottery. We read the story "When Clay Sings" and learned how cultures all over the world used the arts to tell stories of their lives. This allowed us to reintroduce clay into our art area and the students are using a variety of designs to create artifacts that represent aspects of their own lives. The students are also working on engineering design concepts and using different materials in the classroom to think about our essential question: How can we design a moving object? Some students created a moving object with new lego materials and discovered how weighted objects can push or pull their design, allowing it to move forward and backward, which led to newer ideas for other children to use with their objects. Each morning we discuss our question and we will continue sharing new ideas during our morning meetings. Our most recent finished writing project is our class book, where we discussed how we can be and show love to others, not only in our classroom but the outside world too. Each child wrote and illustrated 2 pages in our class book and they worked so incredibly hard to create a published piece to share and keep in our classroom for years to come. Exciting news!! You also have the opportunity to purchase the book to keep at home! Today, I sent home 2 items for you to return in order to publish our book: 1) Please mark "Yes" if you will be purchasing a book to keep home OR mark "No" if you will not purchase a book. Every child MUST return the form signed whether you choose to purchase or not. 2) If you choose to purchase a book please fill out BOTH the form and the envelope with the necessary information. All forms and envelopes MUST be returned by Friday, 12/10 Upcoming Events: Thursday's: Library Day-please be sure to return any checked out library books Friday's: Music Class Wednesday 12/15: Winter Music Performance- 8:30am & 1:15 pm (More info on what the attire will be in the next few days) Friday 12/17: Last Day of School! Minimum Day Dismissal @ 1:18 pm(No Lego Club)
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