Wednesday, October 20th 2021

Hello NLS families,

Today we:
  • started to learn about food chains and played a game outside about them! You could have been a producer, a herbivore, a carnivore or a decomposer.
  • had gym outside - we plated tag and practiced passing 
  • continued to review rotations in math 
  • read 2 chapters of "The Jumbies" - we have been making lots of predictions! 
  • had picture day
  • started the planning of our stories

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