Grandparents's Day!

What a blessing grandparents are! I was overwhelmed by the number of families who showed up to celebrate grandparents with us! I was also so impressed by the program your children put together and pulled off!! That is why I love my job!

Bailey is waiting for things to begin.

We learned Greyson's grandmother is quite an artist and Kylie's grandfather plays an instrument!

Raven and her grandmother!

Killian and his grandparents!

Jeremiah and his family!

We had a packed house!

Isaiah and his family!

Bailey and her grandmother!

It was Sebastian's mom's birthday!

Zoe and her grandmother!

Joseph with his grandmother!

Callie, Kylie, and Bailey

Joseph, Clinton, Deanna, and Cesar

Kweli, Zyasia, Nyzha, and Amberly

Zoe and Sebastian

Raven, Arianna, George, Isaiah, and Chantail

Joneisha, Kaylyn, James, Jeremiah, and Killian

Fun at Freedom Park!

Walking to Freedom Park

Hi, Deanna!

Go Zyasia!

Eating lunch at Freedom Park

Miss Staci is giving us an awesome lesson
(and yes, that poor bobcat's ear is about to fall off!)

An Apple a Day. . .

Ecosystem lesson with Miss Staci
at Freedom Park

Busy October!

Wow! This month has been busy! Sorry I have not been posting lately. We have had many students absent from our class the last 2 weeks due to illness! I hope everyone is feeling back to normal!

Last week. . . .
We went to the Renaissance Festival and had a great time! Thanks to all of the parent drivers!! We also had a wonderful lesson about weather from Miss Staci, and enjoyed delicious food prepared by Cesar's mom as a part of Hispanic Heritage Month. Thanks, Maura!

This week. . .
Tuesday- We will walk to the Farmers' Market and pick out some healthy snacks for our class. Please let me know if you can walk down with us. We will leave around 9am.

Thursday- We will be attending the performance "New Kid" at the Children's Theater. The performance is at 11 but we will go earlier to check out books at ImaginOn. Please send your child's library card and a book bag to transport books back to school. We will garden Thursday afternoon around 1:30. We would love your help!

Friday- NO SCHOOL! Our school is invited to eat at Dilworth's Neigborhood Grill that night. We will get a portion of the proceeds so please come out with your family and friends!

Thanks,

Alex

Writing Journals

Parents,

I am so impressed by your writers!! I stayed up way too late the other night pouring over their awesome stories because I couldn’t put them down!

Students are going home with “traveling” writing journals this weekend so they don’t miss any of the great stories that are all around them.

These “traveling” journals should come back to school everyday so they can continue writing these stories during Writer’s Workshop.

Please help by encouraging your student to live like writers- seeing life experiences as opportunities to share with others. Maybe your family could begin to write together!

Thanks for helping us along our journey to becoming great writers!!

Alex