Early release for Granby Public Schools today. There will be no pm preschool. Pick-ups will start at 12:45.
In Ms. Costas's second grade class, we are learning how to be engineers! Students are building fly traps and then turning them into "something that flies!", just like our book Rosie Revere, Engineer.
Students have been analyzing books from the perspectives of both a reader and a writer. On the first read of a book, students think about the book as a reader and on the second read, they think about the book as a writer. You can try this work at home, too! On the first read, ask your child questions about the plot of the story. On the second read, ask your child questions about the way the author wrote the book. Here's a writing example! In a story that shows persuasion like, A Pet for Petunia by Paul Schmid, you might ask: What are some of the reasons Paul gives to convince his reader? Where does Paul use sparkly words to convince his reader?
In Mrs. Hagstrom’s first grade class students have been working hard on exploring the genre of Opinion Writing. We brought special collections from home and have been sharing our opinions about them.
Students in Mrs. Buder's kindergarten class are doing a great job rhyming! We have been using our "Part Chart" to write words from the same word family! Our class mascot, Mabel, loves to rhyme with us!
In Miss Porter's Preschool class we have started our unit on transportation. We started the lesson by brainstorming types of vehicles. Students thought of everything from a car to a jet to a wagon! During learning centers, some students used magnetic letters and letter cubes to spell out different vehicle names. Other students used pattern blocks to design vehicles, while others matched vehicles with letters on them to a letter board. For science, students used trains to make ramps and roads to observe and discuss what happened when trains rolled, spinned, slid, or even collided! Students are very excited for this new area of exploration!
In Ms. Stone's second grade class, we began our new science unit on matter! We designed and created an initial model of the Fourth Little Pig's house after exploring a variety of materials like wax paper, play-doh, and blocks. Our job is to keep the new pig safe from wind and weather!
Mrs. Budlong's 2nd grade class had a blast celebrating "Backwards Day"!
Students from Mrs. Spellman-Cloutier's kindergarten class presented Ms. Kershaw from the Granby Animal Shelter donated blankets for Kelly Lane. Thank you for all that you do for our animals in need Ms. Kershaw!
Yesterday, for the 100th day of school, mathematicians in Miss Goldberg's first grade class sorted cereal into groups of 10 and put them together to make a necklace with 100 pieces of cereal! They practiced, sorting, stringing the cereal onto the yarn and counting by 1s and 10s!
This month in Miss Williams' first grade class they earned the “Golden gnome” for following directions and being kind to others. Can you spot the golden gnome helping us read tricky words? Our gnome friend is off to celebrate other classes at Kelly lane!
The students in Mrs. Peterson’s preschool class are working on following multi step directions. The students participated in a directed drawing activity to go along with their hibernation unit. They were given a piece of paper and a marker and had to follow along the step by step directions to create a picture of a polar bear. Each picture turned out different and personal to that student’s interpretation of the directions! Such a fun activity to show the importance of the process not just the product!
In tech class Mrs. Toth's second graders are learning how to use Chromebooks in preparation for third grade! This is new technology for them - as up to now they have only used iPads at school.
Mrs. Sessions' Class has been working hard during WIN/Workshop time on both Math Skills and Phonics. In math we are working on skip counting by 2's, 5's and 10's and counting ones and tens up to 100. In Phonics our focus is on our vowel teams, Snap Words, compound words and contractions.
Schools will be closed today, Thursday, January 20, 2022.
Sra. Jáquez's Kindergarten class is learning to name some foods in Spanish. Students are also practicing saying "Tengo hambre" (I am hungry) and expressing their likes and dislikes of certain foods.
In Mrs. Wilken's kindergarten class, we are working on counting collections. Right now we are working on teen numbers. By the end of the school year, we will be counting to 100 and above!!!
In the Physical Therapy room we do many things such as: walking on the balance beam; bean bag toss to knock down bowling pins while standing on the balance beam; climbing over the big bolster; log rolling down the foam incline; jumping on the trampoline; shooting baskets; standing and balancing on the wobbly equilibrium boards/domes; hanging from both hands on the trapeze bar and swing; using the exercise bikes; to develop and increased balance, strength and coordination.
We are preparing for our coronation tomorrow when we will crown a room full of Kings..."Kings of ing!!"
In strings kindergarten has been working on holding practice violins.
First grade is working on plucking the strings or pizzicato and second
grade is playing on real violins and bows! Way to go everyone!
