Who has more fun than us?

What a wonderfully exciting week we have had! Mrs. Eaton helped the children celebrate the completion of our first unit of study in readers workshop by reading The Lorax and started a new tradition, Tasty Tuesday. The children pretended they had truffula branches (fancy toothpicks) and speared truffula fruit (pineapple, kiwi, and mango) which was then dipped in yogurt. Mmmmm good!

We saved the best for last . . . today Charlie Wilson, our district technology teacher, brought 4 computers into the classroom and let the children take them apart and investigate the inner workings first hand. You would have thought we piled each table high with candy and said eat all you want. They were first showed various components and told what they were and how they were important to the computer. While checking out the inside they then had to find all these parts and unplug wires and replug them. Do you know where the I/O Bus, RAM memory, CPU fan, or motherboard are and why they are there? Ask your child!

SEE YOU TOMORROW AT THE FUN RUN AT 1:30. It's going to be a beautiful day.

Mapping our Houses

The children are having a great time mapping their houses on a huge Williston map that one of our tech guru's, Jessica Wilson, made for us. We'll have to do an activity that teaches them what a scale on a map means as they think that someone 3 inches away is an immediate neighbor!

Monday we will be sharing our best written work to date with Nancy Leonard's class in Esprit. Make sure to ask your child what piece he/she shared and who they shared it with. We will then embark on a new unit of study in writers workshop entitled "Small Moments". Our current readers workshop unit of study will also be coming to a close and of course we will be celebrating the children's work and then begin a new unit of study based on the characters within the books that we read.

Wednesday, October 1st we will be having a quick bus safety orientation with Donald the bus driver. Thursday, October 2nd all of ABS will gather together in the gym for our annual Red Clover Kick off ceremony at 8:15. We will have a parade of books presented by the staff members that will be reading them throughout the year to each classroom. It's always a thrill to watch the entire student population get excited about books! Check out the Red Clover book list at http://www.mothergooseprograms.org/lit_red_clover_nominees.php

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Video created by several students! They're getting better every day.