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Curriculum Night

Dear Class 304 families, I want to thank you to each of you for joining the curriculum night. For those who might have missed or wish to revisit the curriculum night presentation, I have made the slides available as a PDF document. You can access the curriculum night slides by clicking on the following link:Continue reading "Curriculum Night"

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Welcome to Class 304!

Dear Parents and Guardians, Welcome to the 2023-2024 school year at P.S. 896, School of  Creativity and Innovation. My name is Linda Chen. I am excited to be your child’s teacher this year! I'm looking forward to seeing your child's progress throughout the school year.  Our classroom will be on an exciting journey of learning and growth. ThroughoutContinue reading "Welcome to Class 304!"

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How to Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich!

Our last writing unit of the school year is on "How To.." and we started it off by having the students write instructions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. We wanted the students to see the importance of including important details in their writing so Mrs. Willis had a fun ideaContinue reading "How to Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich!"

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Springing Into April for More Fun Learning!

It's April and we're getting closer to the end of the school year! During the past month or so, our class had the privilege of taking part in three residence programs (Music, Art and STEAM). The students have been enjoying learning how to play the recorder, learning and making cool art projects, and learning howContinue reading "Springing Into April for More Fun Learning!"

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Happy New Year- More fun learning to come!

We ended the year with a writing celebration for our Non-fiction pieces. The students worked so hard on their writing and have made significant progress. We started our new unit which is on opinion writing. This will be fun as the students have already started off with great ideas. Some of the students have beenContinue reading "Happy New Year- More fun learning to come!"

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Shapes Galore

We are ending our 2nd/3rd grade math learning how to recognize and characterize shapes by their attributes and properties. Our first lesson was describing two-dimensional shapes according to their number of sides or angles. Our students were encouraged to use precise language when describing the shapes. For example, they described a pentagon as a shapeContinue reading "Shapes Galore"

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Week Nine

We enjoyed a fun and productive week continuing our artist study of Georgia O Keefe, continuing our non fiction books and poetry, working with place value, and reading in Spanish and English. We ended our week with our monthly craft day and the students made beautiful painted rocks just in time to decorate a gardenContinue reading "Week Nine"

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Week 8

Students learning and reading We had a great week full of new learning and celebrations. We started the week with a publishing party and continued to learn more about plants, work on our artist study of Georgia O Keefe, learn new phonemes, and working with place value in math. Looking forward to another fun weekContinue reading "Week 8"

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Week seven

Students learning and celebrating This week was full of learning celebrating! We enjoyed daily events for respect for all week including 100 day of school, black history month, and lunar new year. Hope everyone enjoys the break! announcements: congratulations to Preston for getting spotlight student!

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Week six 2022

students writing, listening to each other present, doing zoom word study with a class parent,and looking at their projects. This week was full of learning and celebrating our hard work by turning our hallway into an art gallery. Students admired each other's projects from different perspectives and are excited to continue exploring how artist areContinue reading "Week six 2022"

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Week Five

We had a great week learning together while also celebrating Lunar new year. Students have enjoyed learning about a new tradition and comparing it to their own traditions. We have also kept on putting final touches on our sculptures, reading more words, adding groups of ten, and writing persuasive and non fiction pieces. These studentsContinue reading "Week Five"

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Week of November 15

In our Chinese language arts class, our friends started to play radical puzzles to make Chinese characters. We learned two common radicals, female(女字旁) and sun(日字旁)and some high-frequency words related to those two radicals, such as 妈妈 (mom),奶奶(grandma),姐姐(older sister),妹妹(younger sister) 和好 (good). We had partner power to make sentences using our sight word flashcards, and readContinue reading "Week of November 15"

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Week 9

Our kindergarten and first grade classes are learning about symmetry and radial symmetry in visual art. We first practiced symmetry by designing symmetrical butterflies, and then we practiced radial designs using a circular template. This unit's culminating project is making a radial design, called a mandala, using cardboard and foam shapes. See the process forContinue reading "Week 9"

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Week Three!

We had another great week of learning and exploring! Congratulations Jury for being new spotlight student of the week 🙂 Some updates: This week we will start using seesaw to upload homework. You will still get the homework on google classroom, but there will be link to upload pictures of assignments on seesaw. I amContinue reading "Week Three!"

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Week two!

We had a great second week of learning! Working hard at writing stories, math, learning about Spanish speaking countries, creating collages, and we got to enjoy doing our read alouds outside this Thursday and Friday. Looking forward to next week! Hope you all have a great weekend 🙂 Some announcements Congratulations to Miss Amelia Iverson!Continue reading "Week two!"