Community Circle & Fall Friends

Fall is a very busy time at the Manara Academy. We are practicing for Student Led Conferences, finalizing our FALL Expedition, and having some FALL fun ... here are some highlights from the last couple weeks.

2 Weeks ago at the Community Circle -- Fatima Sowe received the Exemplary Explorer award for Collaboration. She used those collaboration skills with her classmate -- Christuan Young in the All Star Team Challenge competition. Christuan and Fatima beat out the rest of Kinder and 1st and 2nd graders in the move the beach ball with the rubber band contest!  CONGRATULATIONS!  This is the FIRST time EVER that my class won the Competition! YAY!!!
 
 


 

Last Friday, October 31, Rahma Syeda became our newest Exemplary Explorer -- she received the certificate for Primacy of Self Discovery

Congratulations RAHMA!



 

 FRIENDS ... sometimes a simple game of catch during recess on the last warm days of October hits the spot!

COMMUNITY HELPERS

We have learned so much about Community Helpers and how community helpers have to be good Citizens!

We're excited to share our ABC's of Citizenship book with all of you in December!

 

 Firefighters & an FBI Agent!

 

 

Construction Workers!!!!

Aamna hopes to be a Pilot someday!

Look at all of our FUTURE Doctors and Surgeons!

These young ladies will make wonderful Doctors someday!



 

 

 Norah hopes to become a Zoo Veterinarian ....

 

F A L L    F E S T I V A L    F U N

Ms. Miller and I

My Take-Down the Can booth!

I definitely got a LOT of exercise chasing that FAKE apple!!!!

 

 

 

Kindergarten SELFIES!!!!!

 

Can't believe these kiddos are now in FIRST GRADE!!!

 

STAGE MANAGER SELFIE

Jude & I
She is my right - hand girl in Theater Group

LUNCH MADE EASIER

 

Thank you to Ms. Frye for writing the Donor's Choose Project and THANK YOU to everyone who funded the project!

 

The kids now have trays to carry their lunches on! We also received many bottles of KID and FOOD safe sanitizing spray from Clorox to keep the trays clean! We won't have apples rolling, salads flying, cinnamon apples and peaches spilling, and forks flopping all through the hallway ... YAY!!!!

The trays have also made the classroom cleaner .... the kids keep their food on the CLEAN trays, which keeps the tables from getting STICKY and GRIMY!

 

LOVE the TRAYS!!!!!

 

Looking forward to seeing all of you at SLC's this week!!!!

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

P U M P K I N S

We've been busy learning the life cycle of pumpkins, finding out what's inside a pumpkin, weighing, measuring, drawing and writing about pumpkins ... we are now PUMPKIN EXPERTS!

The children used cubes and links to measure how tall and links to measure around their pumpkins -- they worked in teams and collaborated to make sure their work was accurate.

 

 

 Next, we weighed the pumpkins -- we used milk and hand sanitizer and added up the ounces when our scale balanced. Some pumpkins weighed as much as 60 ounces and some as little as 6 ounces.

Not enough! This pumpkin is heavy!!!!

 

We needed to add a lot to get the scale balanced.

 

Let's put on more! This is not balanced!!!

 

GETTING READY FOR THE FALL FESTIVAL!!!!!!

The kids had fun making pumpkins, apples, and leaves as decorations for the FALL FESTIVAL

this Saturday, November 1, from 11 - 2

 

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What's inside a Pumpkin?

Parts of a pumpkin -- stem, skin, seeds, flesh/brain, pulp

It's SLIMY!!!!!

It's SOFT AND SQUISHY!!!

It's HEAVY!!!

I'm not sure if I want to touch it!  YUCK!!!!!

mmmmmmm .... it SMELLS GOOD!!!!!

 

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Our classroom Pumpkin Patch!

 

DO ALL PUMPKINS FLOAT???

Find out at our Student Led Conferences -- Next week!!!!

 

Don't forget -- the Fall Festival is this Saturday, November 1 from 11 - 2

 

Also, school dismisses at 1pm next Wed, Thur & Friday - November 5, 6, & 7

and Student Led Conferences will be in the afternoon.

 

 

 

PILOT VISIT

Last week, we had a visit by an American Airlines PILOT! He showed the children pictures of planes he has flown, what he carries in his suitcase, and all of his flight plan manuals-that now fit on an iPAD, and a printout of a flight plan. He was a great Community Helper visitor!!! Especially since our school is right next to the airport! 

The Kinder students using their ATTENTIVE LISTENING SKILLS!!!

Showing his jacket and pilot's badge

Talking about his WINGS!

 

Picture above and below -- showing the children the different planes he has flown.

hmmmm????  What's in my suitcase!

He showed them his back pillow, toothbrush, book to read, and his extra shirt!

What's in this HEAVY flight bag???

His headphones to talk to tower

ALL his flight books!!!!

 

How long is a flight plan for a 3 hour flight .... 

keep going ......

and going ......

and going ......

Lots of directions!!