Mrs. Guerrero’s NEWS
Megan.guerrero@lz95.org  (847)540-3439
Our Class
Suchi Atluri
Cole Binder
Aidan Bravo
Aaron Conners
Michal Drozdynski
Audrey Dupee
Jessica Eng
Aiden Goldberg
Soorya Haravu
Maren Kaufmann
Filip Kawalec
Anirudh Kodukula
Alisa Kotelnikova
Alex Krupa
Sahniyah Massie
Aislyn McCarthy
Luke Moran
Max Ness
Ashley Oberfield
Mackenzie Strickland
Nicoletta Tomaino
Brayden Wetter
Trinity Yanchyk
Helen Zhou
A Walk in the Rain
with a Brain:
This book has a great
discussion guide for
parents at the end. It
also helps us adults
understand ways to
reach kids who might
be struggling with their
abilities or skills:
http://www.amazon.com/Walk
-Rain-Brain-EdwardHallowell/dp/0060007311/ref
=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=14583
29230&sr=81&keywords=a+walk+in+the+
rain+with+a+brain
Our week in review
During Reading time we worked reading
But in the end, we know that feedback helps us grow,
Non-Fiction pieces in order to help us
change, and do things better. Feedback is also
write a fictitious story with factual
encouraging, especially when it has positive compliments
details. Whoa, that’s a mouthful! The
sprinkled in! You might have noticed some papers
students have loved this reading/writing
coming home with feedback that your child has written.
journey this week! They wrote facts like
Please feel comfortable giving feedback on school
science researchers would, we had
papers. The children understand that without feedback,
discussions, and we gave feedback to
we can’t grow and learn! But remember that
each other on our writing. The children
compliments help ease the pain… we talked about the
are currently using their notes to write
sandwich approach to feedback. Layer the teaching
the story. The finished product will be
feedback with positive feedback!
on display at Open House.
Books we read:
We did a St. Patrick’s Day Reader’s
Leprechauns in the Late Winter
Theatre. Afterwards I had the kid give
Helen Keller biography
feedback. We talked about how
A Walk in the Rain with a Brain
sometimes it’s hard to hear feedback, it
Math:
stings sometimes!
More work on arrays and counting coins
BRAIN
Science Fair
The book I read about the
brain lead to discussions on
how we can take care or our
brain. Did you know that
positive human contact
strengthens our brains…
simply smiling at others!
Lower level brain activities
such as watching tv, playing
simple video games, or
performing unchallenging or
repetitive tasks does not use
as much brain power as
making up stories, playing
games, or finding your way
when you are lost!
Lake Zurich CUSD 95 will
be hosting our 8th
annual Science Fair on
Saturday, April 16..
Sign up has been
extended to April 12th
at 11:30, so sign up now
to ensure your spot!
Visit the website below
for registration
information.
http://www.lz95.org/cla
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undationsciencefairande
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Housekeeping
The Biography
Book Report is due
on April 8.
Miss McGee will be
teaching in our
classroom next
week. Please email
the office with
notes, or write it
out to her.
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