As many of you may know I like
to call myself a runner. I truly love
to run. When I get a spare amount of
time I will choose to run. Last Saturday
I ran my first race of the year. I ran a
pretty decent race and I was okay with my finish. As I was driving home that day I came down
the hill near Ellenboro. Do you know the
hill I mean? It is one of my favorite
hills to run. I used to run from
Lancaster to Platteville every weekend and that hill was something I really
looked forward to because it is such a challenge. I haven’t run that hill in a LONG time and so
when I went to Platteville on Wednesday evening I parked the car right near
that little Ellenboro Garage. I stood at
the bottom of the hill looking up. I
started up the hill and then had to stop.
The hill is pretty steep and I was nervous (and maybe even a little bit
scared). I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to
run up the hill like I used to. Every now and then we all need to try running
up those big hills. When we do those
difficult things, we realize what we are capable of. This school year has been full of challenges
but we have made it (almost)! We have
tackled the unknowns of the Badger Exam (just have another week left of
them). We have completed our final STAR
tests. We can do this. Don’t be afraid to try running up those big hills! What a great feeling it is to be able to look
back down the hill once the challenge has been met!
We worked
with a grammar review this week. Our
grammar creatures turned out well and we know we can teach you a bit about
prepositions and adverbs! Social studies
time was used to review biographies and then we created a Biography Brochure to
share what we had learned about our famous people. We included text and graphic features to
review our reading skill from last week (maps, photos, timelines, etc.). Math Unit 7 is wrapped up and we will review
Monday for our test on Tuesday.
This week's newsletter is HERE.
