At our All School Monday Morning Meeting, the Dance Team was announced and they did a quick performance! Students names were chosen for the Random Acts of Attitudes tickets. Gus from Mrs. Hubney's class was picked! Mrs. Turos also introduced the Holiday Shop!

Thank you to everyone who attended Student-Led Conferences! I hope you were able to get a glimpse of what your child does on a daily basis. I also hope you were able to see how much growth they have made in just 3 months!

We have been sharing about ourselves and learning new things about each other. We interviewed a friend and asked them about some of their favorite things. We took notes and then presented our findings to the class! We also starting sharing our Me Museum items! We talked about our family, things that our special to us and things that make us unique!

Our Pumpkin Jack has not sprouted yet, but we are still observing and taking notes!

We wore orange to help support anti-bullying!

The Fab Lab came on Friday! We had so much fun watching lasers cut wood and even a pumpkin! We also got to decorate our own wood pumpkin!

We have continued to share about ourselves through our writing this week. I like... I can...

We were so excited to look at our books that we got from the Book Fair this week!

In our Math center, many loved working together to see if they could build the tallest tower. Then, they had to see how many cubes high their tower measured.

We have been doing an Authors Study on Todd Parr. His books pair so well with our current planner. We are loving the stories and how they all have such a positive message about being yourself, loving each other and the world!

We had fun learning about pumpkins this week! We learned all about their life cycle and then did our own experiment. We are going to try and see if we can get our pumpkin to sprout!

On Friday afternoon, our 4th Grade Reading Buddies came and we read and also made a fun snack together (Pumpkin Fluff)! It was fun to get to know each other a little more!

Picture Day was Tuesday and everyone looked so adorable and special in their non-uniform clothes! We also got to preform a song at the
​K-2 All School Morning Meeting!

At the K-2 All School Morning Meeting, students were recognized for being caring! They were presented with the "Living the Learner Profile" award. Luke was chosen from our class!

In this planner, we are learning a lot about ourselves and our friends. We are making a lot of connections about things we have in common. Our Ambassador of the Day brings in something from home to share. This week, they started a chart and the Ambassador drew a picture of what they brought. If you made a connection with that person about their item, we signed our name. We talked about how it is okay to not always like all the same things.

I love how excited we are to READ! At the Library Center, we choose good-fit books and practice reading by ourself or to each other.

In Writing Workshop we have been talking about sense words. We will be connecting sense words to word choice in our writing to make it more interesting! We have been looking for sense words in books as we read them this week too!

In Mandarin this week, we learned the vocabulary for family members. We had fun acting out each one too!  

We read with our 4th Grade Reading Buddies for the firs time on Thursday! We had so much fun getting to know them, reading to them, and them reading to us! We are so excited to get to do it each week!

Sometimes at CIS, the unexpected happens! Around 3:45pm one day, Christian Kirksey (Linebacker for the Cleveland Browns) showed up to do a meet-and-greet with students! He took pictures and signed autographs too!

Central idea
Children learn about themselves and others by sharing with friends and trying new things.
Lines of inquiry
1. Personal histories
2. Our similarities and differences
3. Being open-minded
Key Concepts
Reflection, Connection, Perspective
Learner Profile
Attributes
Risk-takers, Open-minded, Reflective
Attitudes
Confidence, Curiousity

We began our new planner this week. We started off talking about the season. Then we charted where the holidays belong. This lead to us making connections about holidays we celebrate. This also lead us to talk about some of our differences. We learned that some of us celebrate different holidays. 
We also talked about what it means to be open-minded. We read a great story that really helped us understand what being open-minded means.

We are doing well in our Centers. We are staying in our area, working together, learning, and having fun!
Our Literacy Centers consist of: Library, Word Work, Writing, Exploration. The Construction Center is open during our Discovery time at the end of the day.

In Math we have been working on

• identifying, ordering, and counting numbers 1-10
• writing numbers 1-5
• identifying circles, squares, and rectangles

In Writing Workshop this week we continued to review nouns and verbs. We have have worked on using captions in our writing and now we have moved into story sentences. We also worked together to write a letter to Mrs. Hawley's class. They accepted our invitation! We can't wait to start next week!

The Cavs Scream Team came and kicked off our day!

Kindergarten raised a total of $3,151! The school raised a total of $23,545! Thank you to everyone who helped support the cause!