February 27

Good afternoon!

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend with family and friends.

This morning, shortly after gym, there was a whole school assembly for Jump Rope for Heart. The students learned some very important "healthy" information. Ask your son or daughter what the Jump Rope people suggested we should eat, how many glasses of water to drink daily, the number of hours to sleep (not 24 hours as suggested by an older student!), and how many minutes of daily exercise (Ahmed said 4 hours!!!). We saw some incredible jump rope skills and then witnessed a jump off between 3 girls, 3 boys, and 3 teachers. Pretty impressive moves! Stay tuned for more information regarding fundraising.

After music class we learned our new sight words for this week: two, yes, may, like, and he. I made sure everyone understand I meant the number two, and not to or too. Difficult to wrap your brain around it when just hearing the word. Students came up with some impressive sentences and tried really hard to use multiple sight words in one sentence (so they had fewer sentences to write...smart!). Homework for tonight is using the sight words in sentences. Interesting ones!

We only did one round of Daily 5 in the afternoon as we read a silly book called On Beyond Zebra. This book was about letters that are beyond the letter Z. Matty noticed that Dr. Seuss likes to rhyme words, and many of them are nonsense words. I mentioned to the students that for homework they could come up with some silly nonsense words that rhyme with our sight words.

Have a great evening!

Ms. Cokar