The week of March 12

Upcoming Events 

Here we are singing our class song all about our favorite Habit of Mind. You'll love our song! It is so creative! 

An Evening with Jon Gailmor

W.E.S. concert 

3/19/18
Students should arrive at 5:45 and walk down to our classroom. 

Parent Teacher Conferences 

 3/20 1:20-4:30, 3/22 2:50-6:30

Please contact Debbie in the office to schedule a time to meet

Spring Equinox 

March 20, 2018 

No School 

March 23, 2018 

Readers' Workshop

We began a new unit of study on nonfiction texts. This week we reviewed nonfiction text features and practiced using them to help us grow our schema. This week we practiced using a table of contents, photographs, captions and labels. Here are the kiddos using their nonfiction text features with their reading partners. 

Can you catch a leprechaun?

The first and second graders did a great job planning, creating, revising and explaining how their leprechaun traps work. It was an exciting Monday morning when we arrived at school to leprechaun dust and chocolate coins!! Although we didn't catch any leprechauns this year it was a fun engineering project! Here are some photos from our week.

    

   

States of Matter 

What happened to my ingredients? This was our driving question as we examined our new phenomenon! Students noticed what happened to the ingredients I put into the freezer for supper. We worked on observing what happened to the different ingredients.  Some items came right back to their original texture and looked the same as when I put them in.... some items did not return to their original form. 

Later in the week, we spent time outside exploring the snow. Students worked on forming ideas about matter. We noticed matter everywhere. We even think that matter can be things we can see and can't see! Students took tiny pieces of snow and made larger objects, then broke them down and made something new. 

P.S. I can't wait for the 10 foot snowbanks to melt!!