This week has FLOWN!
Unfortunately, we've been hit hard by some illness -- we've been reminding them to wash hands frequently, not share pencils, and to otherwise make sure they are taking care of one another. Hopefully this long weekend will get us all healthy again. Teachers are deep cleaning and Cloroxing to make sure the space is unwelcoming to germs!
Valentine's Day was a huge success! It was so neat to see how they really wanted to express genuine care for one another. There were so many, "Thanks friend!" and "Those are so cool!" We enjoyed more yogurt parfaits and juice, along with all the mailing fun. So much creativity in their boxes and their Valentine's Cards! Thanks to all who donated time and resources to make it happen.
In reading we've begun our new novel, Out of My Mind. Our character, Melody, was born with Cerebral Palsy and cannot move her body or communicate verbally. In the first chapter, we learned about her passion and ability to work words in her mind, despite not being able to tell anyone what's inside. It sets up the struggle immediately for the reader, and we are anxious to explore more.
In writing, we have typed up our Inside/Outside poems, and Mrs. Forrest is working on publishing our anthology. We also discovered AAWWUBBIS -- ask your kids about it -- it's a great way to determine what's a dependent clause in a sentence! Here's a link to a fun song too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNrvAmM3M2I
We've been learning about Design and Urban Planning Careers in social studies to help us better understand how to draft and present blueprints of our Playground Redesign to the Kiker Campus. Stay tuned!
In math, we continue to discover the importance of data and various ways to represent. We collected categorical and numerical data and represented in a variety of ways. It's much more challenging to create your own graph than to understand and critique someone else's graph...so this has been worthwhile tricky work. We enjoyed small group number talks to work our mental division muscles during centers this week and ended the week calculating the total number of valentines exchanged in the SBLC - almost 2,000!
As scientists, we used several graphics as a tool to help us better understand the results we gathered from our soil investigations. Our soil scientists have discovered that different sized particles cause soil types to behave differently and this has led us to design our own follow-up experiment. We're remembering the power of a testable question and the scientific method to help us prove our ideas. We designed an experiment to test water retention for our different soil samples, have gathered materials, and will conduct our experiment next week.
Enjoy the long weekend!
Jen and Jewellyn
Unfortunately, we've been hit hard by some illness -- we've been reminding them to wash hands frequently, not share pencils, and to otherwise make sure they are taking care of one another. Hopefully this long weekend will get us all healthy again. Teachers are deep cleaning and Cloroxing to make sure the space is unwelcoming to germs!
Valentine's Day was a huge success! It was so neat to see how they really wanted to express genuine care for one another. There were so many, "Thanks friend!" and "Those are so cool!" We enjoyed more yogurt parfaits and juice, along with all the mailing fun. So much creativity in their boxes and their Valentine's Cards! Thanks to all who donated time and resources to make it happen.
In reading we've begun our new novel, Out of My Mind. Our character, Melody, was born with Cerebral Palsy and cannot move her body or communicate verbally. In the first chapter, we learned about her passion and ability to work words in her mind, despite not being able to tell anyone what's inside. It sets up the struggle immediately for the reader, and we are anxious to explore more.
In writing, we have typed up our Inside/Outside poems, and Mrs. Forrest is working on publishing our anthology. We also discovered AAWWUBBIS -- ask your kids about it -- it's a great way to determine what's a dependent clause in a sentence! Here's a link to a fun song too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNrvAmM3M2I
We've been learning about Design and Urban Planning Careers in social studies to help us better understand how to draft and present blueprints of our Playground Redesign to the Kiker Campus. Stay tuned!
In math, we continue to discover the importance of data and various ways to represent. We collected categorical and numerical data and represented in a variety of ways. It's much more challenging to create your own graph than to understand and critique someone else's graph...so this has been worthwhile tricky work. We enjoyed small group number talks to work our mental division muscles during centers this week and ended the week calculating the total number of valentines exchanged in the SBLC - almost 2,000!
As scientists, we used several graphics as a tool to help us better understand the results we gathered from our soil investigations. Our soil scientists have discovered that different sized particles cause soil types to behave differently and this has led us to design our own follow-up experiment. We're remembering the power of a testable question and the scientific method to help us prove our ideas. We designed an experiment to test water retention for our different soil samples, have gathered materials, and will conduct our experiment next week.
Enjoy the long weekend!
Jen and Jewellyn
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