October Magenta Happenings
After doing a few art projects to establish our group, and after all students decorated their special writing binders, we Magenta Magicians have now built some good daily routines for drawing, writing, and learning. We’ve read a couple of books in class so far; “Caps for Sale” was a favorite, and more recently we read “B is for Beaver,” an alphabet book about Oregon. After we learned a little about our state, we thought it would be fun to learn about each other, so we followed a template for an “I am” poem: “I am goofy and smart, I like to play baseball,” etc. A few wrote seriously, while others used their imaginations to write funny or scary poems inspired by Halloween (one girl pictured herself as a vampire and wrote from that perspective). Also, everyday at ACE we learn a “word of the day,” and groups take turns presenting a skit about the word. Yesterday we Magicians performed the best skit yet seen at ACE, involving the word “embark” and a noble dog-sledding team in Antarctica. Ask your child for a reenactment: you’ll be impressed! (Kids love showing off to their parents about new words they’ve learned.)
