Synergy News
Friday October 12, 2012
NEWS
Friday October 12, 2012
NEWS
We had an exciting Tuesday this week. We had our first visit from Four Winds. They taught the class about complete and incomplete metamorphosis. After a puppet show and puzzles to help lean more about the different type of metamorphosis we all went outside to attempt to capture bugs. As you might recall Tuesday morning was one of the coldest mornings of the fall so far. In our search for bugs we found several of milkweed bugs and a few little spiders. As soon as we finished Four Winds the Williston Fire Department came in to teach us about fire safety. Just as they were beginning their presentation their radios blared and many of them had to leave on a call. Luckily two firefighters were able to stay. To end the presentation we went outside and each student was able to climb up into the fire engine.
SNACKS! Last week I looked in students snack bags, interested in the snack choices of today. I began reading labels. In one student's snack bag they had about 1,000 calories and 75 grams of sugar ! The shocking part was they did not appear to be unhealthy snack choices; yogurt, fruit roll ups, juice boxes, cheese and crackers, and chips. I was shocked! Research has proven that a good healthy food increases students achievement. Some good options are cheese sticks, yogurt, fruit, vegetables, seeds, almonds, cashews, pistachios. Please avoid sweets whenever possible! Also we have several students in Synergy that have peanut allergies, PLEASE DO NOT SEND SNACKS THAT CONTAIN PEANUTS!
This week in Writer's Workshop the students continued to work with their editor to get their pieces ready for publishing. The students graded themselves and their writing partners, before they sent their pieces to the publisher (me). We had our first Publishing Celebration this morning. Each student got up in front of the class and read their story. Each students also shared one way they improved their story after their initial writing. This was the first of many Publishing Celebrations we will have this year. Each celebration is a little more involved. The first one was just our class. The next celebration students will each get to invite one other friend from ABS. Then our third celebration we will invite family.
It is still not to late to place a book order!
SNACKS! Last week I looked in students snack bags, interested in the snack choices of today. I began reading labels. In one student's snack bag they had about 1,000 calories and 75 grams of sugar ! The shocking part was they did not appear to be unhealthy snack choices; yogurt, fruit roll ups, juice boxes, cheese and crackers, and chips. I was shocked! Research has proven that a good healthy food increases students achievement. Some good options are cheese sticks, yogurt, fruit, vegetables, seeds, almonds, cashews, pistachios. Please avoid sweets whenever possible! Also we have several students in Synergy that have peanut allergies, PLEASE DO NOT SEND SNACKS THAT CONTAIN PEANUTS!
This week in Writer's Workshop the students continued to work with their editor to get their pieces ready for publishing. The students graded themselves and their writing partners, before they sent their pieces to the publisher (me). We had our first Publishing Celebration this morning. Each student got up in front of the class and read their story. Each students also shared one way they improved their story after their initial writing. This was the first of many Publishing Celebrations we will have this year. Each celebration is a little more involved. The first one was just our class. The next celebration students will each get to invite one other friend from ABS. Then our third celebration we will invite family.
We earned ANOTHER school-wide celebration!
On Thursday, October 18th we will have
CRAZY HAIR DAY
at ABS to celebrate!
Book Club Order Due Date : October 28
Scholastic Book Clubs Ordering Information
www.scholastic.com/bookclubs
Class Activation Code: HFWGD
ASK ABOUT
- Four Winds
- The visit from the firefighters
- What they studied this week for theme
- Art in the Tech Lab
Important Dates:
"My dad has more nose hair than anyone I have ever seen!"
- Wednesday October 17th is Spirit Day dress in Blue and Gold.
- Thursday October 18th is Crazy Hair Day
"My dad has more nose hair than anyone I have ever seen!"
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