The photo above are books created by Live Oak students.
Friendly reminders:
- Cinco de Mayo Festival; this Friday 03, at 11:00am (Please be on time, you don’t want to miss any dance!).
Agradecimientos:
- Thank you Mike and Paige for bringing and sharing the eclipse sunglasses with the children! Everyone got a turn to see the solar eclipse and experience this rare natural event.
- Many thanks to Tony, Leo’s dad, Jill, Arlo’s mom, Holda, Lucas’s mom, Joshua, Aliyah’s dad, and Marissa, Marshall’s mom, for volunteering for the Read-a-thon.
- Thank you to Erika, Lucca’s mom, for the beautiful bouquet of flowers.
Author visit
We opened the Read-a-thon week with a special guest, Natasha Tripplett, a children’s book writer. Natasha read one of her books, “Juneteenth”, and invited the children to share about the celebrations in their families. She also talked about her special place for writing, her dog, who was also her writing assistant, and how many of her stories were inspired by children she met and their ideas.
Making books
After meeting Natasha Tripplett, Marshall decided to make a book. He drew the pictures and asked Niki to write the words of the story. Many students were inspired by him and started making their own books. They engaged with this activity the whole week. It was great to listen to their original stories. We got many books and authors! At storytime we read their books and it was amazing how the whole class was very attentive to each one. The authors showed a lot of pride when their stories were being read to a listening audience.
Role playing
During this week, the teachers provided short and simple stories where the children were eager to participate and represent different characters such as a child, a flower, a house, a scribble, and a sun. It was amazing how they personified and became the character they were representing! They also loved being part of making the production for the roleplay, like props and costumes.
Drop Everything and Read
We closed the Read-a-thon with a very different day. We began and ended our day reading. The children loved listening to many stories the entire Friday! It was so great and helpful to have some of the Live Oak parents to read to our class and how our students were an amazing audience.
Beautiful brown and art
We continued exploring different shades of browns in art projects. The children made beautiful brown rainbows, prints, and they also identified their skin color and made a hand prints poster. Also, Erika, Lucca’s mom, brought fresh flowers which we used for an art project. The children used watercolors and oil pastel to do still life drawings and paintings inspired by the flowers.
Cooking project
The cooking project this week was capirotada, a Mexican bread pudding. It is traditionally eaten during Lent, as some say because the cheese provides extra protein to Lent/Lenten observers abstaining from meat on Fridays. For Catholics, the ingredients in Capirotada hold specific meanings: the bread symbolizes the body of Christ, the syrup represents his blood, the cinnamon sticks are the wooden cross, and the cloves represent the nails used in the crucifixion. The name comes from “capirote” which was a kind of hat monks wore, and a monk created the recipe. The children did a great job chopping and mixing all the ingredients. The cooking team also cleaned the place where they cooked very well. Thank you to Adeline, Lucca, Agata, Ruby, and Eleanor.
Thank you
Live Oak teachers