Last week came and went very quickly! Students worked on the Lent and Dr. Seuss theme activities and they began to practice on their choral speech poems. The grade one classes will join together to perform two poems. I am attaching one of the poems here so students can practice the words at home if time allows.
Squirrel in the Rain
By Francis Frost
The young squirrel's mother said, "Come out!
See—it's raining all about!
Wet silver's falling from a cloud!
It's raining hard, it's raining loud!"
The little squirrel ran down the tree
"It's splashing rain all over me!
It's raining here, it's raining there!
It's raining in the trees' green hair,
It's raining in the flowers' faces,
It's raining in the grassy places,
It's raining on my tail and nose
And on my middle, I suppose!
How wonderful of clouds to fly
And give young squirrels a drink of sky!"
This week we will begin our two weeks of St. Patrick's Day activities. Students will be asked to make a leprechaun trap at home.Their task will be to build a Leprechaun Trap using "found objects". Students will be encouraged to consider what they think will entice a leprechaun to enter their trap. The Leprechaun traps can be brought to school between March 12th and 14th. I will send a note home on Monday just to make sure that everyone gets the information.
Scholastic book order forms will come home this week and the order will be placed on March 15th. Please check the "Important dates" link regularly to see what's coming up each month. I have had parents say that they have tried to leave comments on this blog and were unable to. I have played around with the settings so hopefully comments will be accepted now. Give it a try and see if it works, I welcome your feedback!
Monday is early dismissal for staff meeting - 2:35 pm
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