Hello Everyone,

We hope you're having a good week and want to wish all who are home feeling miserable a speedy recovery (there's been a ton of absences due to illness this week); we've missed you all very much. Also best of luck to our dance competitor — you'll be a shining star for sure :)

It was another whirlwind week, that's just picking up speed as we roll into spring.

The students have been hard at work on their science/tree inquiry art mural for Arbor Day, and wow is it coming together beautifully. They'll tell you all about it, and show it off, this Thursday evening at our Arbor Day Celebration, which is happening 6:00 - 7:30, everyone's invited.

We have had a lot of additions to our Circle of Courage this week.  It truly is wonderful how kind, supportive and generous our group of little people are!

In Language Arts we are seeing more and more fantastic stories take shape in Toy Theaters.  Likewise, the students have been learning how to create green screen videos, editing particular pictures in as backgrounds so as to match dialogue — very cool stuff.  51A has also been working on creative sentence building, and printing skills. It's looking good!

Math performance has been impressive.  Math sentences, math stories and measurement have been the group focus, while in stations, work with teacher was looking at overall math skill assessment. There are definitely some budding mathematicians among us.

In Phys-ed this week, the children were working on their basketball skills.  It is amazing to see how quickly dribbling skills developed in such a short time.

Music has been dedicated to the rehearsal of Music Monday and Arbor Day songs.  It's a lot of words to remember but they're getting there.

Many of us were in kindergarten this morning to support in a sewing project.  Again, it was fantastic to see how patient, kind and helpful our students are with the little ones.

It was a busy week and it was fun.  Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to pull all of our tasks together, and pitched in to help tidy up everyday!  You're a great bunch!

Have a fantastic weekend, be safe and laugh a lot,

Mrs. McArthur and Ms. Klein.

As an extra note, we posted (the post before this) an invitation to join in on Ms. Low and Ms. Ly's trout release.