Good afternoon Purple Room parents,
Next week is R week. We have a lot of fun things planned. We are going to start the week off with Radical Red Day on Monday. We encourage students to find everything and anything red to wear to school on Monday. We will be taking pictures of our red attire for our blog. Aside from this, we will make rectangle robots, rockets, rain sticks, discuss rainbows, classify rocks by shape, size and weight, make Rice Krispy treats, discuss recipes and make our own recipe books.
Our recipe book will require parent participation. I ask that each child bring a recipe to school by Wednesday April 10th. It can be a family recipe or simply a recipe found online, cook book, etc. I will take all of the recipes and put them together to make a book in which the students will decorate and take home. Each student will have a book of recipes provided by everyone in the class. My hope is that this book will be an easy reference for recipes that you and your child can do together in the future.
Alongside our recipe book we will be making a recipe for a good student. This will be done as a class and will include all the ingredients needed to make a good student. ( i.e. good listener, helpful, involved in class activities, etc.) Please discuss this idea with your child and help them come up with some ingredients to make a good student. We will brainstorm as a class and bring all of our ideas together to make a complete recipe.
On a separate note, classroom behavior has improved this week. We are not quite ready for shares, however. So, please keep shares at home. When they are brought to school they are too much of a distraction for students. If classroom behavior continues to improve, we will incorporate shares again. I am considering having designated days for sharing. When we get to that point I will let you know what days of the week we will have shares.
If you have any questions or comments please don't hesitate to email me.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Take care,
Shaina
