Highlights of the Week Januray 18

• (AS) In 20 minutes someone from the Darien Nature Center is going to bring some animals for us to observe.
• (VS)  Today we are having a Mystery Reader.
• (LS)  Yesterday we brought our hard-cover books home.
• (ES)  Yesterday we read our books to the Kindergarteners.  They loved our stories!
• (BT)  Today we have our spelling test.
• (BV)  We have Spanish today.
• (JB) We had a 90 minute delay this week.
• (WC)  In art we made a bed for our teddy bears. We wove a blanket out of paper strips. 
• (MD)  In gym we played 4 Corners. 
• (AD)  In Reading Workshop everyone got a pad of post-it notes.  We use the post-its to mark interesting facts and to mark new information we just learned.
• (WD)  Many people in our class made How To videos.  They are awesome!
• (SD)  In library we talked about Wants & Needs.
• (GG)  We are starting to write our own How To books.
• (LM)  In music Mr. Allen played the ukulele.  We learned a new song called "Somebody's Knocking".
• (GM)  In gym we played Pinball.
• (BO)  We put out a bunch of How To books.  These books will give us some good ideas for writing.
• (DP)  We read a Scholastic News about animals in winter.
• (MRS)  Today we have Spanish.
• (RS)  We learned that people have needs.  Needs are things that you really need to survive.  Some needs are food, water, homes, and clothes.  Wants are things that are fun or nice to have, but you can survive without them.