Thursday, November 20, 2014

Lower Elementary Newsletter - November 7, 2014


                                      11/7/14

Dear RiverRun Families,

This week the children learned when to use the article “a” vs. “an” and are now better able to identify vowels and consonants because of the lesson.  Many children had lessons on division using the Stamp Game or the Division Board and they all continue to work on addition and subtraction.   

We learned this week about the amazing artist Michelangelo.  We critiqued his sculpture of St. Proculus and learned the word resolute, an adjective used to describe St. Proculus' face in a book the class read.  We tried to imagine what it would be like to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.  Four long years with your neck stretched in that unnatural pose!  Rachel played a game with the children where they froze themselves as if sculptures in a museum and she would change their pose.  The challenge was the statues could not laugh and had to be perfectly still. 

We revisited France; Normandy specifically, because Simon’s grandparents recently visited and brought back lots of fun souvenirs.  Tanya read and translated a French menu and we enjoyed some chocolates.  Thank you to Simon's grandparents for sharing their experience in such a fun and tasty way!

Dates to Remember:

November 11th- no school

November 26-28 – Thanksgiving Break

December 2nd- field trip to the Clark museum

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