📚 One School, One Book is officially underway!
We kicked off our schoolwide reading celebration this Friday with A Whole New Ball Game by Phil Bildner, bringing our entire school community together around one shared story. Every student should have received their own copy of the book.
✨ Reading Reminder for Monday Morning
To be ready for trivia after Words of Wisdom, please be sure the following pages are read:
✅ Friday, January 9
• Fifth Grade! — pages 3–8
• Mr. Acevedo — pages 9–16
✅ Sunday, January 11
• Rip and Red — pages 17–22
• Slammed! — pages 23–24
• Ready to Ball — pages 25–27
🎧 Prefer to listen or need to catch up? All chapters are also available to watch and listen online—link: https://sites.google.com/view/sicomac1school1book/home
KM Art Enrichment created monochromatic paintings in various tints and shades of blue. The artists were introduced to paintings from Picasso's Blue Period 💙 for inspiration. We also read a book titled BLUE by Laura Vaccaro Seeger.
Creating our own word problems for division to help us understand how to break up a whole into equal groups! I'm so impressed with these mathematicians!
Two belated Birthday Books today! Justin, we celebrate your honesty and your character! Eden, we celebrate your love of theater!
2C working hard on their reading fluency and word study pattern of y as a vowel this week!
The new year is a great time to reflect and check in on how things are going in our classroom! 3A wrote, shared, and discussed what's going well and what we can do even better in 2026!
KG read Snow Party by Harriet Ziefert while admiring the illustrations by Mark Jones. KG artists painted the backgound in white tempera on black paper. During the following period, students added their collage interpretations of a winter village.
Happy Holidays from 3A! Wishing everyone a fun, safe, restful winter break! ☃️
New winter themed hallway decorations in 4th grade! Our fourth grade mathematicians are using area models to solve two digit multiplication problems.
The Birthday Book tradition continues in 5th grade. Happy Birthday, Zack! We celebrate your natural leadership!
4U had a great time becoming engineers at the holiday party today! Thank you class moms!
KM read a book titled Snow Party by Harriet Ziefert. inspired by the winter night scenes in the book, students created their own monochromatic painting. During the next art session, we will add a "snow party" collage using colorful, textured oapers.
2D artists are working on their paintings based on the book titled This Little Kitty.
We love creating our own word problems in 3rd grade! Showing our math knowledge in a way that's festive and fun! ☃️
KG Art Enrichment 🎨
KG enrichment created a study in blue. Artists experimented with mixing values and producing a monochromatic image.
2C working hard on solving some multi-step word problems.
Birthday Book tradition for Wyatt today! We celebrate the way you see different perspectives.
🐣💖 A tiny egg is coming to Sicomac…
January marks the grand opening of Library Tamagotchi Paradise!
Thanks to a generous grant from @zimcares , our library now has four adorable digital pets ready for student caretakers.
Students will team up to feed them, play with them, and help them thrive — because every library should have a few quirky class pets. 😉
More details hatching soon! 🥚✨ @tamagotchi_us
Fourth graders are teaming up and tackling problems together before Wednesday’s test! Partners are talking through each step to feel confident and ready!
