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Youngs Class Shared Reading

This week we did several language activities. We also discussed print concepts. The books that we read are If You Give a Moose a Muffin, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Pig a Party, If You Take a Mouse To School, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, If You Give a Dog a Donut, and If You Take a Mouse To The Movies. We discussed cause and effect and voted for our favorite Laura Numeroff book. It was If You Give A Pig a Pancake. We also compared and contrasted If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and If You Take a Mouse to School using a Venn diagram.

November 9, 2012 Dates to Remember

November 12: Veterans Day Holiday (No School) November 16: Holiday Meal (Reservation Required) November 22 & 23: Thanksgiving Holidays (No School)

Yellow Pod Notes Food For Thought From Jim Trelease

Is There An Amount of TV That is Not Harmful to Children? Before looking at the recommended dosage, its important to understand that the greatest academic damage may not be by the content of the shows viewed but by what is not being done during those twenty-eight hours a week of sitting inertly in front of the TV: the games not played, the chores not done, the drawings not done, the hobbies not worked, the friends not made or played with, the homework not done, the bikes or skateboards not ridden, the balls not caught, the books not read, and the conversations not held. I hear parents call it my babysitterbut if there were a babysitter who did that much damage to your kids mind; youd be at the police station in a heartbeat. The average child is watching twenty eight hours a week, almost three times the dosage recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The AAP calls for ten hours a week, and no TV for children under two. This was based on a research analysis of twenty-three TV-learning studies of 87,025 children in England, Japan, Canada and five areas of the United States between 1963 and 1978. The findings showed no detrimental effects on learning (and some positive effects) from TV viewing up to ten hours a week; however, after that, the scores began to decline.

Theme
We used this week as a catch up/review week. We worked hard on fact pages for our project book, as well as continuing our discussion of the zones of the oceans. We are creating the zones in our project books. Miss Adams has been helping some students complete construction of our seahorse. We have also been working on a seahorse fact page.

General Information
Monday, November 19 will be a make-up day for school pictures. Any child that was absent on Picture Day (Sept. 21) will be able to have his/her picture made on November 19. If your child is eating breakfast at school, please make sure to have them here by 7:30 so that they have time to eat their full breakfast before reporting to their classrooms for the day.

Needed Items
14-2 liter drink bottles Clear Vinyl Tubing

Have a wonderful weekend!!! Autmn Young asyoung@auburnschools.org