Willowwind School was apart of a "Back to School" write up in the Press-Citizen on Friday, August 19th. Our friends were featured on the front page!
Check out http://www.press-citizen.com, go to the "Photos" tab and scroll down to "IC Schools First Day 2011." There you will find pictures of Himani dancing to our Freeze & Wiggle Song and a handful of our classroom boys learning all about staying healthy with our bathroom procedure.
There is also a great pic of Diggory and his Mom heading in for the first day of a great WW Adventure under "Your photos: First Day of School."
This week we will continue our discussion on classroom expectations. During Morning and Afternoon Meeting this week we will discuss what it looks like to be Respectful, Self-Controlled and Prompt. You can use this same vocabulary to discuss what these expectations look, sound and feel like in your own home.
Daily News begins this week as well! This authentic writing assignment allows friends to take turns researching articles at home and sharing them with the class, or writing about special happenings at home such as a great dinner, a bedtime story or the start of Tae Kwon Do. This writing assignment can be written as a cartoon, in pictures, in sentences or as bullet points. Invented spelling and illustrations are also encouraged at this point in our year. If it is your child's turn to write Daily News, please be sure to help them bring the Daily News Journal Bag back to the classroom the next day so that they may share from the Author's Chair during Morning Meeting - even if it is not complete.
I will see you on Monday morning. Take good care.
Ms. Brooke
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