Riverview Elementary Weekly Newsletter
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During the last week before Christmas Break some students bring in gifts for their teachers. It is very sweet. Sometimes you’ll find a gift mysteriously placed on your desk at recess. Sometimes they’ll hand it to you and say, “My mom told me to give you this. I don’t know what it is.” And sometimes the gifts come wrapped with lots of love and masking tape. Those were my personal favorite.
I use to try to wait till vacation to open my presents, but students always beg you to unwrap them.
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In the spirit of Thanksgiving, some Riverview kiddos wrote what they are thankful for. There’s nothing more real than asking a student a serious question to see what their response will be. Kids don’t have to try very hard to be funny-they just are.
“I’m thankful for guys!…like Spiderman guys, like Superheroes!
“My bey blades!”
“I’m thankful for my family and Thanksgiving and even you, teacher!.”
“I’m thankful for X-Box and everyone who brings food.”
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There are some things that happen at school that are guaranteed to bring any lesson to a grinding halt and there is nothing that even the most highly effective teacher can do to refocus students.
Spiders
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There are certain triggers that always wind children up: rain clouds, wind, a close game in PE, and – the week before Halloween. The closer the calendar gets to that day, the more bonkers children become.
To be perfectly fair, it’s not completely the kids’ fault that they can’t stay focused. Teachers are partly to blame. We read aloud Halloween stories, draw haunted houses, sing “pumpkin carols,” and graph candy corn.
Our class has been learning about fall leaves, apples and rocks. We went on a nature walk around the the sports park. We found acorns, rocks, and cool shaped leaves with different colors. We did some neat leaf rubbings in our journals.
Principal Moment
Elementary school teachers are master code breakers. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the guy who figured out the hieroglyphic mystery on the Rosetta stone wasn’t at one time an elementary school teacher.
Every Friday Ms. Larsen's does something called "Flashlight Friday." They turn off the lights and read with flashlights. It is a BLAST!
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Why?
Why will kids ask ten times when recess is but then want to stay in for the whole break to organize markers?
Why do kids forget where to indent in a letter but remember the name of my guinea pig I had when I was in the third grade, and why my dad washed my mouth out with soap when I was eight?
Why do kids write “THE END” so big?
Why do kids know precisely how many days, hours, and minutes are left till their birthdays but still ask, “When’s lunch?”