Friday's Fun!

Hello kids! Madison escaped today before we got her blog post done, so I thought I would write a quick recap of the day for you! This morning we took our weekly assessments. We also read a book called "My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks!" It was a book full of similes. We learned that a simile compares two things, using LIKE or AS. After our Treasures test, the children all made their own similes! What a great way to make our writing more fun to read! We also brainstormed possible story topics for our personal narratives. After lunch, Mrs. Misner came in for an Art Appreciation lesson about Michelangelo. The kids then tried to color a picture- of Miss O'Sullivan- on the floor on their backs! It was a lot harder to do than it looked! Then we went to the LMC to see Mrs. Dufern. Mrs. Dufern finished our podcasts with our Arlington Heights Landmark drawings, our voice recordings, and our actual photographs if we had them. It was so fun to see and hear all of the work that each of the children did! We learned about a NEW challenge in our classroom for the month of November, its a US Landmark challenge this time! We are to choose a landmark in our country to study, and we will present them to the class at the end of November. Finally, Ava's mom, dad and older sister came to visit our classroom for Ava's star student presentation. She did an awesome experiment showing how hot air expands- it blew up a balloon! Ava read a cute Halloween story to the class! What a great day at school we had!

Have a fantastic weekend!

:) Miss O'Sullivan