2nd grade had a guest speaker, Mrs. Harding. She is a composer and music specialist. She worked with the students to play instruments and listen to their sounds. We read Violet’s Music and the students played along every time there was an onomatopoeia in the story. It was a great way to make the book come alive and to bring a musical aspect into our lesson. The students hard a blast!

If you would like to help a student, or family, for Christmas, we have a few more ornaments left on our Giving Tree. Thanks!

This  week Kindergarten has been learning about different cultures and traditions. A couple parents came to the school to share about their families cultures or traditions. The kids loved getting to know each other some more and learning about new cultures and  traditions!

It's that time of year again...kinder screenings! Every December, your Meadow Brook SLPs screen every single kindergartener to make sure that their speech and language skills are where they should be. We wait until December so that our new little friends have some time to adjust to what school life is like. Now that they have their feet under them, we want to make sure none of our friends are missed in receiving some specialized intervention if needed. We love our kindergarteners. Happy kinder screenings! :) 

In fifth grade, we have been working really hard on reading. We have been focused on trying to read 100 books as a whole class with each person participating. We have currently read a whopping 267 books! We earned a Murphy (Mrs. Nelson's puppy) Party and got to play with our unofficial class mascot. We are loving seeing how much easier reading is getting as we practice at home! We even had a read-a-thon and loved every second of reading in our forts! Fifth grade is going through fifth grade with our noses in our books and smiles on our faces!

Teamwork is an important part of being successful at school! Miss Jacklin’s class has been practicing teamwork by building cup towers together! We love seeing how tall our cup tower can get and we know the more we work together the easier it is!

Meadow Brook 4th graders took a trip that was a real "mapping" success

Our instructional coach Susan Jurkatis, is excited to share some of her favorite holiday stories and fun vocabulary activities with the students at Meadow Brook this month. Can you guess what all these book covers have in common?