A Very Short Week!

Storm Stella and the snow days it created made for a very short week for Team Esprit, but we still managed to pack in some great learning experiences.

Susanna, from the Flynn, returned on Monday to help us generate ideas for adapting Cinderella.  We discussed adapting the characters, the setting and the motivation.  We practiced moving around the classroom as the adapted characters we pulled from our imaginations and talked about how those characters are different than the characters in the original fairy tale.  We spent the rest of the week creating story boards for our own adaptations of Cinderella and look forward to beginning our writing next week.  The next fairy tale we will be adapting will be Little Red Riding Hood.

We have continued reading Because of Winn Dixie during Reader's Workshop and have been looking very closely at the character Opal.  We have been looking for patterns that support our ideas about her character traits and using those to come up with theories about her.  We are also practicing these skills in our own books.

Miss Niles' class enjoyed a Hands On Nature lesson about Trees in Winter. This month, we were tree detectives learning about twigs and branches and how to looking at their characteristics can help identify a tree. We also learned about how trees survive harsh winters!  Since it was a beautiful day, we had a chance to go outside and explore the trees in our school yard as well.  Can your child identify any trees in your yard? Miss Deb's class will learn about this on Friday, March 24th.




In Math, we continued to learn about division through division story problems and fact families. We also played a game of "What's Missing?" Bingo to become more efficient at solving our multiplication and division facts.

Lastly, Miss Niles' class had Fiber Art Friday with Bradie Hansen, Jacob's mom.  I loved the creativity of their new sock puppet friends!  Thanks Bradie!

 Have a great weekend!