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Yeah-yeah…I know it doesn’t snow in the Cayman Islands, but that shouldn’t stop us from having a snowball fight, should it? So, needless to say, once I decided on doing this winter activity, I was then left with the problem of how in the world would I get snow to Cayman? Hmmm…ehhh…forget the snow, we could use paper instead! AND! To make this an educational experience, on the paper, each student would be required to write 3 things about themselves. They had to use as many descriptive words as possible, without being ‘too’ obvious. You see, the object was to not only practice our adjectives, but to also learn a little something more about each other. So, after they described themselves, they had to crush up their paper into a ball, add it into our sorting tub and then choose a random ‘snowball’.The scene was set. With a handful of snow…errr…paper, they aimed and THREW their snowballs at each other. After about 3 minutes, they had to cease fire, find a ball, take their seats and read out loud the clues that they held in their hands. Then it was time to see if they could correctly guess who these clues were written by. Needless to say, we had loads of fun, with many requests to have more ‘snowball’ fights and even relate it to other subjects. (For example, one student suggested we write clues about Central America (that’s what we’re covering now in Social Studies) and see if we can guess which country is described on the paper). Don’t you just love it when your children become super excited about school? 🙂

                                                                          

    In the book Because of Winn-Dixie, Gloria Dump surprises Opal by showing her a bottle tree. Gloria’s tree is full of different kinds of bottles – “the ghosts of all the things I done wrong,” she says. On Friday, we decided to make a bottle tree symbolizing all of the things that we did right. Each child was asked to write down one good thing he or she has accomplished this year. They then rolled up their pieces of paper and placed them into their plastic bottles. These accomplished were then added to the tree outside of our classroom to remind us that we’ve all done something that we can be proud of. Ask your child when accomplishment they placed inside of their bottle. Also get them to give you a summary of what has happened so far in Because of Winn-Dixie, and what they think may happen next.

Last week in Grade 4, we were studying Daniel 3, which deals with the image of gold and the fiery furnace with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Since they all understood the story so well, we decided to take it on the road and perform it for a WeeCare class. Everyone did an amazing job and had a blast learning their roles and parts. Ask your child what they learnt from reading Danial 3 and having to perform the story.

 

 

 

 

  

Dear Parents,We are starting a new behavior management system in Grade 4. Please see below and ask your child daily what ‘card’ did they finish the day on.Thanks for your continued support.Blessings.Ms. Suckoobehavior_management       

In Art class today, we worked on creating collages. The class was shown a picture and they then had to mimic it as best as they could using only items found outside and inside the classroom. They were encouraged to be creative and had the option to either work individually or in groups of 2.