It's hard to believe that we only have 8 more days left of school until Winter Break!

Here's a look at this week's happenings in ELL:

One group of Kindergartners is working on communication exercises and practicing engaging in conversations describing characteristics about themselves. They are focusing on using eye contact, answering in complete sentences, and staying on topic.

Another group of Kindergarten ELL students is working on organizing foods into different food groups. This week's work was on sorting pictures and writing examples of fruits and vegetables. The students sorted pictures into categories, then used their journals to draw pictures and write sentences using the sentence frame A _________ is a fruit or A ________ is a vegetable.

First grade is working on writing details about holidays that they know of. We began our unit with a quick write about our favorite holidays and everything that we know that represents that holiday. We will continue by doing a picture sort with characteristics of various holidays and then doing another writing project where we will work on expanding on the details of a specific holiday.

Second grade is discussing healthy and un-healthy foods. Monday, we completed our Rally Robin activity identifying healthy and un-healthy foods and we will continue tomorrow by completing nutritious plates of food.

Third grade is working with Mrs. Howard on features of animal habitats and are utilizing vocabulary words such as adaptation, habitat, predator, prey and climate.

Fourth grade is working on features of the Southeast with Mrs. Krishnan.

Fifth graders are beginning a unit on Atoms. We will discuss the vocabulary protons, neutrons, nucleus and electrons before examining the periodic table of elements.