Friday, January 19

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Here's what we did this week:

- in music we had the artist of the week which was The Beach Boys (Sophia)
- we drew a picture of the story The Fox and the Drum without Mrs. Klein showing us any pictures (Neisen) (visualization)
- in gym we are learning gymnastics (Rye)
- we learned the difference between a hexagon and an octagon (Anna R) (AJ)
- we learned how to be safe in the gym (Dominik)
- we did a shape hunt to learn more about shapes (Kinsley) (2D & 3D)
- we learned about facing our fears (Jack)
- we did a little game about the differences and the sound of "ch" and "sh" (Sophia)
- we wrote about The Fox and the Drum writing what happened first, then next and then last (Liam)
- we wrote about how to be kind in the new year (Emerson)

We also drew objects from the real world that matched up with the 2D and 3D shapes that we are learning.

We wrote several goals for the new year:
1) 2 - ways I can be a better student
2) 0 - something I want to stop doing
3) 1 - person I want to get to know better in my class
4) 8 - ways I can be kind

We learned the new words: on, all, like, do, be & the "ill" word family words.

We started drawing the faces of our family on our apples for our family tree.

Artist of the Week

Shania Twain:

This upcoming week brings us our second female and first country artist — Shania Twain! In the 1990’s, the Canadian singer received commercial success with her country album “The Woman In Me”. She then began to blend genres with her pop-country album “Come On Over”. We will be exploring the genre-specific instruments, themes, and patterns heard in the first album.


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Enjoy your weekend!

Julie

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