Buddies

This year, the students of Room 8 have wonderful older buddies from Rm 15.  Cross-age buddies promote respect, care, valuing differences, responsibility, friendship and including others.  Older students develop leadership skills and the younger students feel a safe and caring connection with an older child.  Our buddy time is scheduled every Day 5, period 8. We will engage in outdoor activities, literacy, art, technology and play.

After meeting our buddies for the first time, we went on an outdoor nature scavenger hunt.

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Fall Celebration

Yesterday we celebrated the first day of fall in connection with the science topic of "daily and seasonal changes". A word web was created to represent the children's knowledge of fall. Beautiful art was created, including leaf rubbings, leaf prints and spray paint leaf pictures. The children wrote fall poems and enjoyed an apple taste test. Finally, the students learned about the types of leaves. Happy fall!

Daily 5 - Read to Self

Today was our first day of Daily 5. We learned "Read to Self" today and practiced twice. Today we read for 3 minutes and we plan to get stronger every day and build our reading stamina. During Read to Self, we stay in one spot, read the whole time, get started right away, read quietly and keep our eyes on the book. Sometimes we read the words and other times we read the pictures. We are off to a wonderful start!