A few highlights from last week...

 

-we hiked to the rocks on Tuesday, 

-celebrated a classmate's birthday, 

-practiced sewing, 

-built with Legos,

-enjoyed so many beautiful picture books (most of them requested by the students . . .),

-we ate sourdough bread prepared by Elaina (with baking help from some of the OG),

-played "Color Freeze Tag", "Simon Says" and "Heads Up 7 Up" for some of our group games,

-we are on Chapter 7 in the Magic Treehouse book (Dinosaurs Before Dark)

-Children have been invited to read to Mia and Christine to start to get the ball rolling with some of our reading work. Many are feeling comfortable and are beginning to share their knowledge of letter names or letter sounds or writing sentences (for our journal pages) and even personally written stories. 

-Two opportunities for project work have surfaced this week- drumming lessons on Wednesday afternoon

-AND our class received a letter from an elementary class in Iowa! So much excitement over a letter addressed to our class! We have been invited to participate in "The Great Mail Race". The idea is to write letters to one school in each of the 50 states. Our class is excited to make connections, explore the US map and learn about the different locations and elementary students that we are corresponding with. We will continue this pen pal work into the next few weeks of school.