Dear families of Cranston School, Room 73,

We hope that you had a good week. We have had a very busy week here in room 73.  We have decided to write you a letter, that we call TWAS (this week at school), each Friday to let you know some of the things that we have been up to each week.  This is our TWAS for the week of September 6th - September 9th, 2016.

This week we learned how to draw owls and then we made them all our own, by adding our own special touches. We met our new phys-ed teacher, Ms. Quilley, and learned the game 'elves, wizards and giants." We also met Ms. McArthur (our room 73 teacher) and Ms. Thomas (our buddy room teacher) and Ms. McBride (our music teacher).

Some other things that we did this week:  started writing stories for the circle of courage; set up and worked in our daily 5 groups; solved 'eye opener' riddle and number problems first thing in the mornings; completed math tasks with numbers of the day; completed problem solving math art and created our own math word problems. We used popsicle sticks to help us organize the set up of our classroom (bins/coats/chores).  We learned about DEAR (drop everything and read) and enjoyed it each day for fifteen minutes after lunch. There are oodles of other little things that filled our days so feel free to comment with some questions and we'll do our best to answer.

We also wanted to send out a huge thank you to council for providing us with that wonderful snack yesterday.  It was so kind of the volunteers to offer up their time and add a little something special to our day!

Lastly, we would like to ask any family members who are able to volunteer for our Terry Fox run, this September 29th, to let Mrs. McArthur and/or the office know.

Thank you for reading our first post/TWAS; have a great weekend,

Sincerely,

Room 73

(Thank you everyone who was able to get the first group of forms back so quickly; one more went home today for in-line skating)