(You may need to refresh to see our video Morning Greeting in the space above.) Attendance: We would like your grown-ups to email Jackie and I every day with your answer to the day’s joke or riddle. Today’s attendance riddle is: Billy’s father has five children total. Four of them are named Lala, Lele, Lili, […]
Attendance: We would like for your grown-ups to email Jackie and I every day with your answer to the day’s joke or riddle. Today’s attendance riddle is: We will have daily assignments posted here at 9am. You should be doing as much of the work as you can. Jackie and I will be available to […]
Dear Families, It was a busy and admittedly surreal week. The week started out as business as usual, and ended with a celebration for Pi Day and preparing for distance learning. To recap the learning that we did this week, we dug deeper into fractions. Not only thinking about how to represent a fraction, but […]
Dear Families, It was a pleasure for Jackie and I to connect with so many of you on Thursday and Friday! Our Temescalians have worked so hard so far, and it’s always so great to celebrate growth and highlight areas that can be a growing edge for them too! While our week was short, we […]
Dear Families, We continued our study of measurement in math and used balance scales to find actual weights of different classroom items. We challenged the kids to first make an estimate of each item, and then find the different between what they guessed and what the actual weight for each item was. This week, we […]
Hello Families, We hope that your February break was a restful one for you all! We had quite a week before break that included Friendship Week, presenting our 1,000s Projects, celebrating the 100th Day of School, and celebrating Valentine’s Day! Friendship Week is a week where we pull a Temescalian’s name and do acts of […]
Dear Families, February is a very short month, but since it’s a leap year, there is an additional day this month! We talked about dates and our conversation led to talking about palindromes because of 02/02/2020. There are many numerical palindromes, but Temescalians knew quite a few alphabetic palindromes like “race car” or taco cat”. […]
Dear Families, We had a full week of learning, celebrating sharing, and an excursion to the Exploratorium! We kicked off the week with a birthday celebration. It is always nice to see how we change over the years. Often Temescalians will note when the birthday person “looks like them now”. It is nice to hear […]
Gong xi fa cai! (Mandarin) Gong hei fat choy! (Cantonese) Chúc mừng năm mới! (Vietnamese) We celebrated the Lunar New Year on Friday. We had parent volunteers join us and they read stories of traditions for the Lunar New Year while Temescalians tasted tang yuan and tangerines. Tang yuan are chewy rice balls with either […]
Dear Families, We settled back into routines in this second week of the new year. To augment our handwriting practice, we introduced “backboard writing” where the teacher chooses a word that features the letter of study. Temescalians are paired off and one will write on the other’s back. This gives each part of the pair […]
