Celebrations everywhere!

Part of celebrating cultural diversity is learning about different kinds of celebrations around the world, around Virginia, around our school, and at our own homes.

Ms. Berfield had the students write about the diverse celebrations that they experience at home. Their work can be found on the Diversity Wiki, along with the stories that our pen pals from Spotsylvania have added to our wiki.

Even our Physical Education class is celebrating! Watch our newest youtube and check out the Twelve Days of Gym Class!

Diversity in Virginia

diversity quilt

Our student teacher, Ms. Berfield has been teaching about the Diversity of Virginians.

She taught us that communities in Virginia include people of many ethnic origins who come from different places around the world.

We played games to work together, read books that taught us lessons about respecting diversity, and made many projects that can be seen on our new wikispace. Click here to see the Diversity in Virginia wiki!

Thanksgiving Memories

We participated in another online project! We have combined our memory writing skills with the Thanksgiving holiday to share our thoughts across North America!

http://thanksgiving-2009.wikispaces.com/

https://cwojtera.wikispaces.com/Student+pgs+09-10

Verbs – Our actions

We have been talking about verbs! Remember, a verb is your action – it’s what you do!

We demonstrated verbs, wrote verbs, and even put our featured book character, Dan into action with verbs.

Sadie, Sam, Emma H.-C., and Grayson have their Dan action pictures on their own wiki page today… check out their links or the link to the student pages!

Here is a game that shows you some action words in action! It is fun to look at – try it out!

Sunday Sing Along

Enjoy this old song… you can read the words as you listen.   Sing along!  Peek in on the wiki later for a new look.  I’m working to ‘fancy ‘ it up a bit.  Your new word wall words are added, too. 

Hello Wonderful Ones!

This is our special chair.  We will sit in it to read our stories that we write.  You are invited to come and read to us and then you will get to use the reading chair! 

Notice our wiki badge on the right.  It now has our weekly word wall list.  Please open and print to study your word wall words.  It has the February menu (which is not being sent out on paper unless requested), and our January and February Curriculum Calendar.  I would love for you to see the Curriculum Calendar.  It is an overall view of what we are working on during the month, referenced with SOLs.  I hope it is easy for you to use.  If you encounter any problems accessing these forms, feel free to e-mail, leave a comment, or call me at school.