February 21-24, 2012

Mikey as the Magical Dew Fairy!

Eldrich and Alexa playing "Father" and "Mother".  Father is frightened as he has just learned the Hansel and Gretel have gone to the Ilsenstein Forest, where the evil Gingerbread Witch lives, to look for strawberries.

The Witch (Conner) popping out of her Gingerbread House to find Hansel and Gretel eating goodies from it!

This week was filled with Fairy Tales! 

In Language Arts the focus was Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Students did story sequencing as well as writing story sentences with the correct grammar and punctuation. 

On Wednesday all received ashes at a special Ash Wednesday Mass. Religion this week was also focused on Lent. The children brainstormed ideas on how they could be more like Jesus - helping others, being kind, and praying for others. Next week we will go "fishing" for ways we can be more like Jesus and do one of these kind deeds each day.

We wrapped up Topic 6 with our Topic Test and got a taste of Topic 7 - Subtraction.

We also celebrated President's Day with an introduction to Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. The students made a Star Spangled Wreath as well as a fun activity book. 

On Friday we got a special visit from the SF Opera with their Sing-A-Story program. The children learned about what makes an opera (singers, an orchestra, costumes, etc.) and got to perform Hansel & Gretel. They had so much fun as you can see!

We also had a special assembly about litter. We learned that a plastic bag floating in the sea looks just like a tasty meal of jelly fish to a Sea Turtle. Unfortunately, a Sea Turtle only eats when it's hungry and if it's belly is full of plastic bags, it will starve to death. It was an informative assembly that hopefully will make everyone more responsible and conscious about litter.

Hope everyone had a good time at Cioppino!