We have had a very busy week at White Hall Elementary. We started the week off with a bus evacuation drill and received our mid-term report cards. We finished the week with a well attended open house with several students and parents attending. We have fourteen students in our class and 11 students were represented. We showcased some great work from each student and talked a lot about writing and reading progress.
We have just finished our first unit of six in our Language Arts Curriculum, Treasures. Our main selection this week was about a girl named Yoon who immigrated to America. Our week consisted of spelling words, vocabulary words, and supplemental stories about coming to America.
We learned some great new math skills this week. We have been spending a lot of time on "double" facts and how to improve our skills with some shortcuts that make sight addition a part of our math skill set. We had the opportunity to do some painting in the Audobon tradition with Mrs. Winters and Mrs. Painter. We learned about Audobon and painted some blue birds.
Next week promises to be an exciting week. We have an all school field trip on Monday to see "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" at the Jerseyville Theater. We will also have our Fire Awareness assembly and smokehouse tour on Friday.
The students have done very well on their spelling this week. Over half of the class scored a perfect 15 out of 15. Keep working on that spelling!!!
With the weather changing our recess time has included coats and jackets. We had one day of inside recess because of rain but we have had a great time enjoying the fall weather.
