Weekly Highlights: February 22-26

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

This week’s highlights, also with great photos of cooking and pottery-making!:

From Sue McCrary:

Now that we have completed our recipe for fruit salad, we will be working on answering the reading comprehension questions.  Next week’s recipe…French toast!

In social skills, we will be talking about the SuperFlex character Brain Eater and how sometimes this character gets into our minds and causes us to get very distracted.  We will be talking about strategies to use to avoid becoming distracted such as moving everything off of your desk while working or studying and making sure you choose a quiet place to do your homework.

From Katherine Taylor:

This week we are having fun talking about the Olympics in Health.  Yesterday, we ran some “heats” dribbling a basketball and running with a soccer ball.  We talked about how they have to check their heart rate and keep their calories up for energy.  (I wish I could eat more calories!)

In reading comprehension, several students have started to show self-motivation and direction in writing sentences correctly and in answer to questions when reading a paragraph.  We want the kids to read and comprehend what they are reading to really show growth and then to write what they comprehend after reading.  It is so awesome to see some of the kids use original thought in writing.  These kids rock!

Special Project:

This week our students have been working with the Northern Clay Co., making their very own clay projects, including plates.

We’ll hear more from Sarah Trout and Kim Gallant next week!

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2 Responses to “Weekly Highlights: February 22-26”

1. susie fry says:

   March 25, 2010 at 8:56 pm

   I picked up the finished pottery pieces on Wednesday. Look for them after break. The pieces are truly masterpieces!
2. admin says:

   April 6, 2010 at 12:13 pm

   It’s true - the pottery looks great. Pictures will be going up later today!