Field Trip Next Wednesday, November 14th

The Fall Family Reading Party was a success!  I have posted additional pictures on Seesaw.

No School this Tuesday
Because our campus is used as an election site there is no school for students this Tuesday, November 6th.  Ann Arbor Public Schools and A2STEAM encourages everyone in the school community to vote in this election.

Field Trip
Kindergarten will be taking it's first field trip to the Ann Arbor Farmers' Market on Wednesday, November 14th.  We are going to the market to see how resources from all around the community can come together in one place.  I put a lot of important information about the trip in the email I sent out Sunday night.  Please review the email.

Curriculum Overview
STEAM Project - We currently are in the middle of a project attempting to answer these driving questions: "What is a community? and, How can we teach visitors about the A2STEAM community?"  Students saw that they are part of a community and thought about the characteristics that make them unique.  This week we will learn about the different roles community members have.

Reading - Students are identifying the characters in fiction books.  We are also using sight words like 'the', 'here' and 'see' to help us read books on our own.

Writing - Students have been seeing that they are members of a community and writing about the characteristics that make them unique.

Math - We are examining the different ways numbers can be broken up.  For example 5 can be broken up into 2 and 3, 1 and 4, 3 and 2, or 4 and 1. 

Word Study - This week we will examine fonts again and see the different ways in which the letters 'b' and 'd' are written in books.

The Fall Family Reading Party was a success!  I have posted additional pictures on Seesaw.