Greetings From 5B...in the PINK!

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Dear Parents of Room 10,

            PINK!  On Friday, Slingerlands Elementary School went PINK!  The children and staff wore pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness.  Here is a picture of our class donning pink.

             PEACE!  As a member of the human peace sign I can tell you how impressed I was with your children’s peace rocks.  It was a beautiful day; warm and sunny.  And we haven’t been able to use those two words recently to describe our weather.  The entire school formed a peace sign on our backfield and Melanie Painter, the District’s Art Supervisor, took some photographs.  Mrs. Sieme, our art teacher, was the force behind the peace rocks and the human peace sign.  Special thanks to Mrs. Young who drew the peace sign on our field.

            CRAYFISH!  On Wednesday the children took their crayfish vocabulary test, and they did really well.  This is a good start for preparing them for their unit test, which is next week.  I am encouraging the kids to take home their blue binder that contains all of the information they need to do beautifully on their test.  I will be reviewing with them next week, including another “crayfish bee!”  They had a BALL with our vocabulary crayfish bees!  You should have seen how excited they were.  It was FUN!

            MEMOIR!  We began writing memoirs at this end of this week.  Memoir can be a challenging genre because children tend to write more of an autobiography than a memoir.  We’ve talked at length about the integral elements of a memoir.   They are writing their initial draft.  Throughout this process I will be teaching mini-lessons to help them write a meaningful memoir.

            GOVERNMENT!  “Who is the Lieutenant Governor of New York?  Do YOU know the answer to that question?”  That was one of the questions contained on the Government pre-test your child took this week.  Our first focus is the three branches of government.  While our discussion began with the three branches, the Presidential election and this week’s debate quickly became the topic of conversation.   It was a great conversation. 

            BOB DUFFY!  Did you know?  Robert “Bob” Duffy is our Lieutenant Governor.

WEEKEND!  Have a great weekend.  Hopefully we will see a little sunshine!      Lester B.