Another week, another nature walk. We got lucky today and had another dry day for our "promenade" to Hoffman Park. Once again it was fort-building city as hollowed-out stumps were transformed into castles, houses, and even "water fountains". We played "fairies", tag, and hide-and-go-seek, and learned about how pinecones grow into trees. This week we also had the chance to create our "savings accounts" for our classroom economy with our big buddies. We made piggy banks out of water bottles for storing all of the nickels that we want to save. (The wallets are for our spending money only). Today students got to visit the store ("le magasin") for the first time and spend any money they had left over after giving to charity, paying their rent, and putting money into savings. In French class, we continue to practice our reading skills by reading syllable sounds one-on-one with Mme Van Sickle almost every day or, for our more advanced readers, delving into real books one-on-one with Mme. It's so exciting to see the improvements and the light bulb moments. During the one-on-one reading time, the rest of the students are practicing their dictée words at various stations around the classroom, writing their words in salt, using magnetic letters, putting together Bananagram letters, typing the words on keyboards, writing with smelly felts, etc.
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