Specialists Newsletter

By Specialists Team
Specialists
February 16, 2024

Updates on Our Learning:

  • Library:  We have circulated over 7,100 books so far this year!  We have many new books from the Fall book fair purchased and being processed for the library.  Another Book Fair coming in March - stay tuned!
  • Band & Strings: Please continue to help your child bring instruments to school on class days and bring them home for practice through the week. Regular practice will reinforce skills learned in class. Work together as a family to decide on good times to practice at home.
  • Physical Education: Grades K through 6 will be participating in Rhythmic Activities (Hula Hoops and Jump Ropes).
  • STEAM: Students have been celebrating Black History Month by listening to read-aloud stories such as, ‘Hidden Figures, The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race’  and completing a Challenge Dot-to-Dot.  
  • General Music: Students are completing their study of specific composers and their famous pieces.  Grades kindergarten, first, and third studied Peter Tchaikovsky and his Nutcracker Ballet. Grade two has been studying Franz Joseph Haydn and his famous Surprise Symphony. Students in grade four have studied Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his famous piece A Little Night Music. Fifth-grade students studied the composer Edvard Grieg and his Peer Gynt Suite. Grade six students completed learning about Johann Pachelbel and his Canon in D.

 

MLK
Students used perseverance to connect 735 dots to create the "I Have A Dream' image of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.