What an exceptional week! So many highlights it’s hard to pin it down to just one. This week, first grade is still working on geometry while second grade finished their chapter on metric measurement and took a test. For reading, first graders have had a few lessons on phonics that connected to their spelling. Second graders continued reading The Great Ball Game and are looking forward to the prospect of performing a little readers theater for their classmates at the end of the week. One highlight was most definitely the SEAL gallery walk on Thursday. Thank you, parents, for taking time out of your busy work schedules to visit the classroom and see what the kids have been learning. It meant a great deal to the children to see your support. We spent one afternoon planting out wheat baskets. We had an interesting discovery that has a direct tie-in to our upcoming life science unit. We discovered that our plants were sort of yellowish while the ones from Mr. Cubero’s class were bright green. That’s because ours had been in hibernation for one day longer (without sunlight), but by the end of the day, ours had turned green, too. We’re a little more than halfway through Because of Winn-Dixie . It’s becoming bittersweet each time we read a chapter. The kids love hearing this story read aloud and eagerly ask for some “Winn-Dixie” time. But at the same time, they don’t want the story to come to an end. Isn’t that the way with all good books? For Fun Friday, second graders began working on special crowns/hats for their readers’ theater of The Great Ball Game . First grade got to let the artist inside come out while doing some easel painting. Those who didn’t get a chance to paint, will have the opportunity in the coming week. The painting are amazing! !--!--!--!--!--!--!--!--!--!--!--!--!--!--! MonDAYS: Students, please remember to your return library book and red book bag on time! !--!--!--!--!--!--!--!--!--!--!--!--!--!--! April 11 Let’s Look at Art presentation We will have an art docent for the San Jose Museum of Art give a presentation. It is three-fold: 1. An introduction to the art museum. 2. A brief overview of some of the basic elements of art. 3. Use Visual Thinking Strategies to discuss some of the art pieces in her portfolio. Students will also receive free passes to the art museum with the hope that you can visit during spring break. If a trip to the art museum doesn’t fit into your schedule during the vacation, please still hang onto your free passes. I will offer a meet-up time later this spring. 13 1st Grade Performance – 7 p.m. First grade families are invited to see the evening performance. Students should arrive at 6:30 p.m. to allow time for changing into their costumes. 14 Egg Painting Thank you to Elsa Morales Duran and Ericka Hum for your offer of help supervising this fun activity. Also, I’m reassigning my Friday morning regulars, Linda Ganawan and Mei-Fong Tseng, to supervise students with this activity during the morning. If anyone else is interested and available in either the morning or the afternoon, please let me know. Thank you! 14 2nd Grade Readers’ Theater Not to be outdone by the first graders, the second graders also wanted to do a performance. It will be on a much smaller scale…readers’ theater of The Great Ball Game in the classroom. Second grade parents, we’d love for you to see this very modest mini-performance. We’ll do it first thing in the morning, so those of you who need to get to work might be able to stick around for a brief time. We will start right after attendance/lunchcount, at 8:30. and should be finished by 8:40 or 8:45 at the latest. Please RSVP by either emailing me or having your child let me know if you will be able to attend. Thank you. Dates & Events Weekly Highlights Mrs. Bosak Mrs. Bosak ’ ’ s 1 1 st st /2 /2 nd nd Grade Class Grade Class Vol. 9.2 April 10, 2017 Vol. 9.2 April 10, 2017