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We will miss our Target students!

We hope each of you has a wonderful, relaxing summer! Best of luck to the fifth graders as they move on to middle school, and as for the rest of you... we'll see you next school year!

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Week of May 7th and May14th 2012

This week May 9th we had our last session and end of the year celebration with our third graders.

We will meet for our end of the year celebration with our 2nd graders on Monday, May 14th.

We want to wish all our 2nd and 3rd graders a wonderful summer break!!!!!!

Week of April 30, 2012 First Grade

We were off to a late start today, because we had the priviledge of watching the dress rehearsal of the second grade play.  It gives us something to look forward to, and we learned a lot from the information they presented.

We began our Target day with logic puzzles and word bogglers.  We then brainstormed the characteristics of a "big hearted person."  We read about Thidwick, who carried a number of pesty characters in his antlers, all the while being the perfect host.  After this, we learned about the three types of animal relationships:  mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism.  Be sure to ask your child to explain the differences to you.

We created a "moose," by tracing our hands and then made thumbprint animals who might live in his antlers.

NO HOMEWORK this week.  IMPORTANT:  THERE WILL BE NO TARGET CLASS ON MAY 11, DUE TO FIELD DAY!  OUR LAST CLASS WILL BE ON MAY 18.

Week of April 30, 2012

Where has the year gone???????? It is so hard to believe we are on our last weeks.

This week the classes shared their poems from the past week. They also worked on a "show don't tell" story. Using a story prompt with emotions students did an excellent job enhancing their version of the story by describing the emotions vividly rather than merely stating the feelings. It will be fun to share the different stories next week. Students are proud of how their convergent problem solving skills have strengthen this year, as they solve logic problems independently and third graders continue to make great growth with their HOE.

Next Wednesday will be our LAST session with our terrific third graders due to Career Day on May 16th. We will have two more weeks with our sensational second graders (last Target day 5/14).