Miss Jacklin’s class has been hard at work this week performing “surgery” when creating contractions from words! They worked on taking two words and making a new shorter word!

Each term Meadow Brook students are rewarded with a fun activity for having good behavior at school. For term 2 Fourth Graders earned Minute To Win It Games. Each student got to participate in a game to help their team be the winner. There was cup stacking, balloon popping, marshmallow throwing, and cookie eating, just to name a few of the events. Fourth Grade teachers love to have fun with our students, especially when we get to celebrate their good choices!

We have been reading the magic tree house book about Ancient Egypt! To go along with all the learning from this book, We studied the habitat of the desert! Each student got to write and draw something that we learned for our poster! 

The speech teachers really enjoy the opportunity to go into the kindergarten classrooms to teach various speech sounds! This week is focused on the “snake sound” or S sound. The students have fun making the sign for this sound by slithering their fingers up their arms like a snake. 

Happy New Year! What are your New Year’s Resolutions? Our third graders have been working hard all week brainstorming ideas for how we can have the best year in 2023! We learned that it’s not good to just say you will complete a goal and hope it will happens, you have to put forth the work and effort to make needed changes every day. We loved creating our “New Year’s Persons” holding our perfectly crafted goal statements. After stating our goals, we said things like, “We know we can accomplish these goals by doing…”, and “I will work hard every day by….”.

Museum on the Move came to our school to teach the 4th graders about different cultures and people in Utah throughout history. Students were able to handle different artifacts, make observations, and learn what the artifact taught us about people in Utah. 
 

What exciting activities have we done in Computers? Well, let me tell you! Kindergarteners are learning how to code. We coded a pathway for our character to gather items and then to the treehouse so we could meet our friends. First graders are learning how to program using block code and guiding our fuzz buzz to the end of the maze. Oh, this is fun! Second and third graders are learning how to code in “Be Kids” using block code. We are using code to guide our character along the map while completing tasks. We are also learning how to debug our code.