I've added Photo Story 3, which is a free download. Students can take pictures and add voice to their own stories. We’ve also been using http://voicethread.com
at school. Students can add pictures and voice to their stories here as well.
Carlee Justis is putting together our “Beach” basket. Please don’t forget to add your donation by May 1. She’ll be putting the basket together over the weekend. Thank you to the 3 families that have already donated!
I will be in Portland at a state technology meeting on Thursday and Friday this week. Mrs. Valdez will be filling in for me.
Our goal this year at Forest Ridge is to improve students’ writing. During the week, I’d like to encourage you and your child to write together. The topic this week is to write a fairytale. A fairytale usually has good vs. evil, things that come in 3’s, some magical creatures or fairies, usually beginning with “once upon a time” and ending with “and they lived happily ever after.” You could rewrite a known fairytale and put in different characters and situations. Enjoy writing the story together. Be sure to include a beginning, middle, and ending.
Writing together encourages your child to see you having fun with writing, and allows you an opportunity to spend time with your child while he/she learns. Please have your child bring it in by Friday.
In math we’re continuing to work with measuring to the nearest ½ inch. We’re also learning about the metric system. We’ve been measuring using millimeters.
