Classroom News: History, Songwriting, and ECO!

On Tuesday, Ava's great-grandmother and aunt came in to visit us, bringing delicious cookies to share during our snack time. Then, Ava's great-grandmother told us about her important work during World War II in England and France.  She told us about the special airplanes used to transport injured soldiers that had stretchers stacked up inside, like bunk beds.  With her wonderful stories, she brought history alive for our class.  Our class asked terrific questions to learn even more from our special guest.   Thank you to Cordelia and Sandy for spending time with our class! 

Also on Tuesday, we had our first songwriting session with Jon Gailmor.  I was impressed with everyone's creative ideas throughout the process.  On Thursday, we set our lyrics to music.   It has been fun singing and writing with Jon.  Please note that there has been a change to the concert time next week.  The new date is next Tuesday, October 21st at 6:30 pm.  All EMES classes will be performing at this special event. 

On Wednesday, we participated in our second ECO lesson at the same frog pond that the class had visited in first grade.  It was interesting to see how much the pond had changed since the spring.  There was much less water, but we found an interesting variety of plants and animals.  This year, we are learning about various types of habitats and observing the same habitat during different seasons.  We also discussed different types of seed dispersal as we looked at the cattails, wild cucumber, and milkweed plants.  We have been writing about our observations in our ECO journals.  Thank you to Alex Rob for another wonderful ECO lesson!

Reminders and Important Events:

The concert with Jon Gailmor has been rescheduled.  The new date is Tuesday, October 21st at 6:30 pm.  All EMES classes will be performing  in this special event.

Picture Retake Day is on October 22nd.  Please contact Jane Badger if your child needs to retake his or her photo.

Parent/Teacher Conferences will be held on Monday, November 10th and Tuesday, November 11th. There will be a 12:30 dismissal for students on these days. 

The October Homework Packets are due back on Friday, October 31st.