Hello all!
The New Citizen students at Clark Street have been busy learning English, reading, writing, and math. But they have also had time to participate in some “fun” hands on learning activities. Here are some highlights:
1. Pumpkin Palooza
To celebrate fall, students participated in a pumpkin science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program. They measured and weighed pumpkins, described pumpkins with words and pictures, and built structures to hold up pumpkins:
2. Human Body Systems
To learn how human body systems work together to help us live, students built models of human bodies with accurate organs:
3. Meet a Police Officer
To better understand the job of a police officer, students met with a real-life officer. The officer showed the students how she used her tools, and gave students a chance to wear some police-clothes:
4. Cinderella
To better understand fairy tales that they learned in ELA, the students practiced and performed Cinderella in front of Miss Gonzalez’s class last week. All students did an amazing job and gained confidence from the play.
Upcoming events:
- Report cards will be mailed in the middle of November – please pay attention to the ESL and behavior sections, but disregard the ELA, science, and social studies sections because most new citizen students cannot be compared to grade-level standards in those areas.
- We will be going on a field trip to learn ice-skating at Polar Park on November 14th. Please remember to send back signed permission forms this week.
- Student progress conferences will take place on December 5th this year. Please watch out for an invitation.
Hope you all enjoyed the update, and please keep asking the students to read at home – we have lots of books at school if you need them!
Sincerely,
Anek Belbase