Hello Everyone!!!
Hope you enjoyed your Valentine's day! Here at Cottonwood Creek we had a little party! The kids brought snacks and passed out Valentines day cards that they colored and wrote out for all their fellow classmates. I bought them cards and a little treat for them to enjoy while watching a movie! We also played bingo that they themselves colored. Of course we did this a day before so the day of we could just play bingo. Overall it was a fun week. This week however we have been working on and learning about the very important issue that all of California is going through, the drought. I know it's a complicated concept to explain to children but on my research on the Internet, I found a website that is operated by the State of California Water Conservation Department that provides free booklets, workbooks and information for kids to learn and help conserve water. We just started working on them today but it looks like the kids are really willing to learn about the subject. With my group of older kids (5-6 grade) we will be working on the comic book/workbook portion...we are reading a couple of pages at a time and in a group to then discuss. I also found that I could take this time to teach this group how to take notes and condense what they are learning into smaller, more compact sentences rather than trying to rememberer everything in the book. Over all it has been a very productive couple of weeks! And as to the water conservation booklets, I will keep you updated as to how far along and how much we are learning! Time for all of us to do our part to conserve this precious resource.
