Students who are done with all their projects so far are working on Flying Colors including labelling the bones and/or muscles and putting together body puzzles. Ask your child if they know where their hamstring or calf muscle is located!
Friday was Daniela Stout’s last day at OTA. Her father was stationed in Virginia for the Navy. We wish Daniela and her family luck with their big move! We helped show Daniela how much we will miss her with a small Farewell Party on Friday where we presented her with a book of letters and pictures from the class. Students said their goodbyes and Daniela promised to keep in touch. This is especially sad for me because I have known the Stout family for many years. Their oldest daughter, Isabel was in my First Grade class 6 years ago!
Two students were chosen for showing Social Intelligence throughout the month of February. Those students are: Sophia Bear and Ava Pedace.
Congratulations!!! They ate lunch with Mrs. Jones this past Thursday in the classroom.
The Character Trait for March is Curiousity. Please encourage your children to show this at home and school. I will be picking two more students at the end of this month, who have displayed Curiosity.
If you want to find out more about this Character Trait, check out:
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Several of our First Graders have succeeded in earning 10 or more Outstanding Osprey Tickets. As a reward, they take home a certificate and get to pick from the Treasure Chest in our classroom. They earn these tickets for being an Outstanding OTA Citizen by picking up trash, cleaning our school, helping other students, holding doors and many other positive behaviors. They can receive these tickets from any OTA staff member. Please help us encourage your children to be Outstanding Ospreys too!
Student Book Reports are due Monday. Below is a link to the form needed to write the story elements. There is no link for the Cardstock Story Cube paper that you need to put together. You will need to talk to a classmate if you have lost this in order to create one yourself. Thank you for understanding! Good luck!
We also visited this website to learn about the Ancient Mayan Ball Game. The class requested the link so that they could explore it more. Did you know that the Mayans invented the Rubber Ball?? Ask your kids to explain the ball court and how they played… I bet they know quite a bit now!
http://www.ballgame.org/sub_section.asp?section=2&sub_section=3
The class really enjoyed this Muscles Video, so I thought I would share it, in case they would like to watch it again or in case anyone was absent… We read about muscles, watched this video, played Muscles Simon Says, and also made a muscle, haha (out of paper). The video made us laugh a lot about our Gluteus Maximus. Ask your child about their favorite muscle!