Weekly Update 9/13

We have had an amazing week together! Our classes continue to build community through celebrating and valuing everyone's unique identities. We began our first big writing project of the year..."Where I'm from" poems inspired by George Ella Lyon's poem. Learning about all of the places, people, and memories that make up our identities has been a wonderful experience. Be sure to ask your child what they have included in their poem!

We also started switching classrooms for math this week.  Each class has been working on math routines and expectations through math games, problem solving tasks, and independent work.

Our first Choose Love lesson was Monday.  Choose Love is a social and emotional learning program that every child at SMS will be doing this year.  We talked about what it means to have courage.  Some acts of courage are big...but we show small acts of courage every day.  Ask your child what a "Brave Breath" is and how can it help you?

Questions to ask your child about their week:
-What makes you engaged as a reader?
-What can do you do to help you be more engaged when you are reading?
-What math activities did you enjoy this week?
-Tell me about your Where I'm From poem

Room parents:
We are looking for some room parents for Mrs. Ganier's class.  The job is pretty low key! Basically, you would need to be a liaison between the PTO and class parents and help us organize some of our classroom parties.  Let us know if you're interested!

Donations:
If you have any legos, board games, blocks or building materials at home that you are not using much anymore we would love to use them in our classrooms!

Upcoming:

• Open house (with your child!)- evening of October 3rd