Our Cedar students are continuing to practice their email writing etiquette skills. We have drafted and formulated emails to Molalla businesses to see if they would like to support MRA through buying our Holiday Greens and Wreaths. This project was mainly to give our Cedars hands on experience in being professional but we have been rewarded with a couple of responses to our emails which gives us a sense of importance.
Our Alder students are learning how to best organize their emails through learning about gmail's system of labels, filters, and organizations. They now have folders for each of their teachers and have developed filters for those emails to go directly into the designated folders.
The Clarkia are working hard to maintain their 90% accuracy goal in typing and increasing their speed. They have worked hard to memorize the homerow keys and correct finger placement. They are also working on learning different genres of literature with a focus on biographies. We started reading a great biography on Sacagawea.
The Huckleberries are learning the ways they can unlock information by using text elements. Finding information about the planet Earth was easy when we looked in the index and found the page numbers, along with remembering that just as we use our index finger to point to things we want, like cookies in the grocery store, a book's index can help direct us to information quickly.
The Trillium are learning the different parts of a book and the information we find on the front cover, spine, and back cover. We learned about the important job of an author and read about Mo Willems and read one of our favorite Elephant and Piggy books, "We Are In A Book".
