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?
Computers have been so much fun! The students have earned game days for good behavior and working hard. Kindergarten students have been working hard at learning mouse control and how to navigate games on the computer. They are doing amazing! First graders have been working hard to memorize their usernames and passwords. They are almost ready to pass off logging into their computers without their login cards.
The second grade had a visit from Brenda Beyal, a 30-year veteran teacher and a member of the Navajo Nation. We were so lucky to have her teach us about the history of fry bread. She taught us about the ingenuity required to create the bread from unfamiliar ingredients, showed us the cooking process and recipe, shared a song about fry bread, and topped the presentation off by making fry bread on the lawn of the school. Yum! Yum! Thank you Brenda!
Kindergarten has been learning all about Animals! Last week we went on a ‘safari’ and found different animal coverings. Then we were able to feel different coverings on real animals that we borrowed from the Bean Museum!