A great week behind us, a great week before us!

Maybe you’ve heard that we have welcomed a new friend to our family!  He might not always know what we are talking about, and he might (rightly) think we are a little crazy, Lutfullah is a hard worker, eager to participate, and has proved that math is truly the universal language!  Welcome to the entire Hamgar family!


Last week was National Foreign Language Week so each morning on the announcements, different students were teaching us how to say various words in different languages, since so many different langauges are spoken at Maybeury.  One language surprise in our classroom this week, was that on Braelyn’s birthday this Thursday, she pulled out this Japanese birthday song after I sang to her in boring old English! (Click on the video to hear her sing!)

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Did you know that EVERY year, students who receive ESL services (English as a Second Language) have to take 4 more tests than native English speakers?  They have to take a test to determine their reading, speaking, listening, and writing level every, stinkin’ year!  To celebrate finishing most of these tests so far, we had balloons, crowns, rainbow cookies, and surprise notes of encouragement for 7 of our ESL family members! We are so proud of all the hard work they put in every day and we love learning along with them!

Friday was another Spirit Day to celebrate Seuss Month (PJ, Stuffed Animal and Slipper Day) and yet again, your children did not disappoint.  I even caught them all sleeping when I was trying to teach!  Check out this video!

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In terms of what we learned this past week, we learned how to access age appropriate news reports on Newsela through our Clever website, worked more on our research and short reports, talked about author’s purpose in nonfiction texts, discussed how paying attention to sequence can help us understand fiction and nonfiction, compared fractions on a number line, and learned about how simple machines make work easier.  Here are pictures from throughout the week.

 

Your child had the opportunity to spend some of their hard earned mallard money on a ticket to the dance party in the cafeteria on Friday afternoon. It might have only been for 30 minutes, but we got down! Check us out in action! (Click on the video to see our sweet moves!)
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What a glorious way to end the week.  Don’t forget to dance your clocks one hour forward tonight! Hooray for spring being on its way!

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