I hope you've had a great couple of weeks. It has been a very busy time at school. This week our 5th grade experienced Colonial Day at Yealey. It was an incredible day - just like always! Students dressed in colonial period outfits. They made candles, cross-stitched, practiced calligraphy with ink wells and feather, and enjoyed a Thanksgiving feast to name just a few of the opportunities they experienced. I had a great time practicing calligraphy with a few of my 5th grade girls.
After I left 5th grade, I walked into our Technology/Makerspace to work with some 3rd graders who were coding cubelets. They had coded the cubelets to travel 15 inches in 1000 milliseconds. They were working on finding the speed of their cubelets. I couldn't believe how much they had learned about coding, physics, and mathematics. I could not have been more impressed!
We completed our school-wide student led conferences last week. This is such an accomplishment! We knew that this would be a big undertaking for us as a school. There are some teachers who had tried these already and some teachers who weren't sure how these could possibly work. But we decided as a staff to take a leap of faith and try them. I am very happy that we did. I heard such positive comments in the hallways as families were leaving. We know we have lots of room to grow with this process and we would really like to get your feedback to help guide this work. Please take a minute to complete this 6 question survey to give us your feedback. THANK you in advance!!
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I hope everyone has a great weekend and an even better Thanksgiving. Enjoy your break next week with no school on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. We will see you back at Yealey in December!
Mrs. Turner
principal
