November Happenings with ELP at the Elementary
Dear Parent(s), The school year is moving right along. It is hard to believe it is already November and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. The students and I want to take time to update you on classroom happenings: 1st Grade--The ELP students meet with me 1 day a week (so far) for 30 minutes and we are working on a Thanksgiving Reader's Theater called "A Plump and Perky Turkey". They are doing a great job with vocabulary and fluency (reading with phrasing and expression). We will share out with the 1st grade classrooms the week of Nov. 25th. 2nd Grade-- "Pippi Longstocking" is making quite an impression on the 2nd grade students. We are learning about character traits, figurative language and visualization. Each student is creating illustrations and captions for the chapters using his/her visualization skills. Pippi is quite a character! 3rd Grade-- ELP students are extending their study of Native Americans, which is the current Social Studie