Week of December 21, 2014

We had a visitor!  Matteo's grandmother came to join us.  She showed us dolls from around the world and taught us how to make our own dolls.  We will make and write our New Years wishes with our dolls when we return from vacation!

Here's the finished project!

We played some winter math games this week.

We made holiday cards for our pen pals. 

Enjoy your vacation!

Week of December 8 and December 15

During math, we have been working on writing and identifying numbers.  We practiced writing numbers up to 200!  

Students have been playing a game called Missing Numbers.  This game helps with identifying and writing numbers up to 120.

We have also been working on deciding if equations are true or false and showing our thinking.  Students have worked on it as a whole class and in small groups.

We read Snowmen at Night and created our own snowmen to decorate the hallway!

Nurse Amy came in to teach us about dental health and calling 9-1-1.

We have been working so hard on our teaching books.  Students have started to add a table of contents to their books.

Squishy Circuits and S.T.E.A.M.

This week students began rotating through a week long S.T.E.A.M. learning opportunity, with Mr. Bouchard, our enrichment teacher.  S.T.E.A.M. is an acronym born out the Next Generation Science Standards.  It stands for the integration of science, technology, engineering, art andmathematics.  This innovative new part of the Enrichment Program will provide your child with an introduction to S.T.E.A.M. skills that will serve as a base for further projects in the Enrichment Room’s Maker Space.  Squishy circuits are an innovative way for children to learn about electricity and the flow of electricity in a complete circuit using conductive and nonconductive homemade playdough.  We are looking to encourage innovation and creativity through the engineering design process.  

Please look for updated pictures of your child being creative through this hands-on learning process.  

Week of December 1, 2014

We practiced our word wall words this week using fancy pens and Wikki sticks.

Students traced a buddies foot and then measured their own foot using tiles.  They counted the tiles and recorded their number on a sticky note. We worked as a class to order the numbers.

We are working on writing informational books.  Students are planning their ideas on their fingers, sketching across the three pages, and using their teacher voices to write about something they know a lot about.  We have been using mentor texts to get ideas for our own writing.  There has been a lot of great writing going on!