Today was a pretty good day considering the kids have had 4 days off in a row (or 5 for those who left for their holiday weekends early!). We spent time reading and getting back into the routine of the days. Then we had time to start writing back to our pen pals. Last week our pen pals from Bellevue, WA wrote us back and the students were SO excited! It was nice to finally hear about what our pen pals had to say. We had a lot of questions for them and things to tell them! We also had two other letters to write to thank our donors for their donations. Earlier this year I submitted a project on a great website called donorschoose.org. It is a website that allows teachers to submit requests for materials for their classroom and donors from around the country can donate money to fund the projects. I submitted a project for some reading games, magnetic letters, and reading center materials and it got funded fully last week so we are getting the materials soon! It was really exciting and so we now have to write thank you letters to our donors to thank them for the generosity.
Once we were done writing we had art later the afternoon to learn about different textures we could make with the materials we had in our classroom and paint. We explored wax resisting by drawing designs with crayons and painting over it with water colors. The pictures turned out great! Then we painted with brush strokes, cotton balls, sponges, and pipe cleaners to create different patterns. It was great to see the different patterns and textures the students make.
Tomorrow is library so make sure you remember to bring your books. Also, make sure that you have your students bringing their backpacks - several students don't think they need to bring them anymore for some reason! :) See you tomorrow!
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