Sunday, January 10, 2010

Brand New Year

SOOOOOO....is it now 2010! Hard to believe that the school year is almost half over! The students came back to school half asleep (as well as their teacher). It was fun to hear all of their stories about their Christmas break and what Santa brought them! We also got a new student to add to our Brilliant Butterflies! They have been great this past week showing him the ropes! We began our winter unit this week that will last for the next week. We will be learning so much about bears, penguins, winter animals, snowmen, etc. We did a mini illustrator unit on Robert Sabuda, a paper engineer, this past week. We learned through different websites, his books, and PowerPoint presentations about him and how he constructs his books. On Friday, we even got to make our own mini pop-up book! What a fun week!

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  1. Priya was so excited that you talked about Robert Sabuda. Her uncle (my brother) gave her "A Winter's Tale) last Christmas but she didn't fully appreciate it til now. She went to her shelf, pulled out that book, and told me about your lesson. Thanks for teaching them so many new things.

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  2. Also congrats on being the leading Kinder class in collecting Box Tops! I've got more to send it soon.

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  3. Sean is so proud of his pop up book. He still pulls it out to read from time to time.

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