Service Learning - Teaching Seesaw to Ms. Mary Beth's Crew

Today we taught Ms. Mary Beth's crew how to sign in to Seesaw and add a post. We loved being the experts and sharing what we have learned.

We also went on a walk with the whole school during The Beat this morning. It was perfect weather. It would be great to have this weather again tomorrow for the Voyage.

Service Learning

We currently have three service learning projects that we are working on. I thought I would give a little more detail about each one.

Adopt a Family - Our crew voted to adopt a family in need of some extra help this holiday season. We are purchasing gifts for them, wrapping them and tagging them with a special code. Then Ms. Allison, our social worker, will deliver them. If you would like to help your child participate in this event, check out our sign up at the link below. While we are providing a service for those in need, we are learning about how to kindly help others in a non-intrusive way.

Adopt a Family Holiday Gifts

Connecting with Australia - This project really supports our learning and the learning of the students in Mrs. Price's class in Australia. We are teaching each other about the similarities and differences in our ways of life. We are learning to appreciate different ways of doing things. We are learning to listen carefully to someone with an accent that is different from ours. We were surprised to learn that Mrs. Price's class thinks we have accents, too. We are learning to be more globally aware and make genuine connections with other people from around the world.


Smile Project - Our crew created some small posters with motivational sayings on them. Some examples include: Smile, We can do hard things, Breathe, Ta-Da (ask your child to explain this one) and more. We are randomly going to various classrooms and areas of our school and holding these signs up to encourage others to smile, work hard or have a better day. 

I am sure other projects will come up as the year continues. We will keep you posted!

Homework ~ Read a good book or two. Check out a Bedtime Math story.

Tweeting Advice to Mrs. Price's Class

This afternoon we spent a little time tweeting our advice to Mrs. Price's class. This year she has all Preps (kindergarten students). We thought that since they are just beginning their school career they might like to hear our thoughts and advice to help them have a great year. This was a small service learning project for us - the service part was giving advice to younger students and the learning part was learning how to tweet and also reflecting on what kind of advice might be helpful to younger students. Click here to see all of the tweets on our class Twitter page. Below are screenshots of the tweets. We used the hashtag #prepadvice.

It was exciting when we began to get some responses, too.

In case you are wondering Mrs. Price's avatar is a picture of Wonder Woman, it is because primary grade students are so full of wonders that their teacher must be a wonder woman.

Homework
No homework for the weekend. Enjoy some great books with your child.

IA
Our IA next week is PE.

Service Learning

This morning we went back to Bonaventure Senior Living Center for another visit. This time we each chose a book or two to read to a resident there. We practiced our reading so that we could read our books fluently. We also made a Thanksgiving decoration for the residents to hang up in their common area. It is a tree with fall leaves. On each leaf we each wrote something we were thankful for. It was another very rewarding experience. This crew is so sweet, kind and patient. Ask your child to tell you all about it.

Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 4.7 Domino Dots