Go Team Seabury!

It's been quite the week in the Superstars! We used props to tell each other fairy tales and learned about "beginning, middle, end" when analyzing a story. Learning about these elements, along with main character, setting, and plot make it easier for the kids to comprehend what they are reading and are helpful for writing our own stories. We also had our 100 day celebration this week. Everyone brought in a collection of 100 things. We weighed our collections to see what was the heaviest and the lightest. We counted by 10's to make a "snake" out of different materials to see which was the longest. We made number lines using 10's, 20's and 25's as the units of measure. Finally, we had our own Olympic Games on Friday with the Shark Class. We did lots of measuring while we participated in the "cotton ball shot put", the "straw javelin", the "paper plate discus", the high jump and the leg stretch. At the end of the day, everyone went home with a gold medal.

Busy Children!

This week we started our new unit on fairy tales and castles. The kids have been writing fairy tales of their own, painted castles, made their own coat of arms, learned about life in a castle and have been solving the dilemma of a king who won't get out of the bathtub. (King Bidgood by Audrey Wood) They have also enjoyed working on The 3 Bears readers theater with Helene. Odin, the dog who loves to listen to readers, was back this week listening to reading groups.

We are so grateful to our volunteers who organize parties, work on our auction project, accompany us on field trips, donate materials and volunteer their time in the classroom. Thank you so much, we appreciate all of you.

Thursday I had a minute after school to check out the after school activities that our Superstars are involved in here at Seabury. One of our kids was having a great time in Mad Science learning about circuits and 3 other kids were patiently waiting for chess to start. We have so many wonderful opportunities after school for the kids in addition to the ones mentioned including watercolor painting and yoga. Outside of school, we hear all about Chinese school, soccer, basketball, ballet, tap dance, piano, violin, and taekwondo. Our children are very busy people!

Every week is an adventure in the Superstars! This past week we finished our unit on dinosaurs, visited Point Defiance Zoo and learned about sharks, and wrapped up the week with a buddy reading session with the Beacons. Every week that goes by our Superstars are growing and learning new things. Their reading and writing skills are improving and they are finding new ways to learn about things that interest them. They are now proficient with the literature triangle, they can analyze a story for setting, main character, the problem and the solution. These new skills make it easier for the children to comprehend what they are reading and to write their own stories. The children can interpret a bar graph for pertinent information and use it to write their own math problems. It's amazing what you can learn in kindergarten!