Dear Families:
When we said our letter would be continued last week, we
certainly didn’t mean we’d be finishing it up this Friday! Where did the week go?
We wanted to include some details about our physical
education, music and art classes. For
physical education we’ve been enjoying Yoga with Michele as our
instructor. Yoga is a relaxing and fun
activity.
We also had the opportunity to learn a variety of basketball
drills. Jennifer, Noah’s mom, came to
school and taught us drills to improve our dribbling and passing. We were fortunate to get the lesson in before
the weather got colder and the snow arrived.
We’ll practice some more when the springtime arrives. We thank Jennifer for taking time out of her
schedule to show us valuable basketball skills.
Our music class got off to a great start last
Friday. Our new music teacher, Diana,
had us up and moving to the beat as we clapped out the notes of each
measurement. Diana is going to teach us
a lot about music from different periods of time, and how to read music. We know what a time signature is now. We’re
glad she has joined the RiverRun community.
We’ll be sure to get back to our art projects next
week. We know we’re going to take part
in the Silver Graphics Fund Raiser again this year, and we are all striving to
have works of art to choose from. This
month we are looking at the illustrations of Chris Van Allsburg. Fatima, Hamza’s mom, has been bringing a
collection of Van Allsburg’s books to our classroom for us to peruse.
We’re planning to begin work on a drama project. We will be reading Shakespeare’s Macbeth. We have set our goal to perform an abridged
version of the play for you this winter.
We’ll keep you posted on our progress.
Our final discussion this Friday was about Martin Luther
King Jr. and his I Have A Dream Speech. We
worked with partners to find connections in the speech to what we have studied
this year. We found lots of connections,
including some of our vocabulary words.
We’ll view the speech for the figurative language too.
Let freedom ring…..
Debbie & Crew
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