Friday, January 12, 2018

New Year Update!

Hello 1L families! 
Happy New Year!

Check out the fun in life and learning we have had!

Therapy Dogs Visit
Students in 1L enjoyed some love and snuggles from our local community therapy dogs! Thank you to Golden Opportunities for this valuable learning and life experience! We discussed how assistive therapy dogs can be helpful to people for a variety of reasons and especially can be used as a strategy for helping kids to overcome sadness, fear, depression and anxiety.   



Word Detectives at work!
Students have completed a Reading Unit all about looking closely at the words they encounter in texts. Word detective do very important jobs when they read! 
Encourage your students to...

Break words into smaller parts
Pay attention to the beginning of the word
Break the ending off the word
Look our for vowel teams
Use parts of words you know to solve new words
Watch out for unusual words




1 Hour of Code!

With the hope of sparking an interest in computer science and coding, students in 1L participated in the HOUR OF CODE! The Hour of Code is a global movement that is attempting to "demystify" computer science. Students explored an app called Koadable and made mice move according to their programming. We highlighted important "coding language" in our attempt to become real computer scientists.



Looking ahead...
Take a look at these videos to guide conversations for our upcoming Science and Social Studies curriculum!
Martin Luther King Jr.
Sound
Light

Love,
Mrs. L

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