School Helpers

We spent the month of January interviewing people who work in our school and visiting different work spaces like Chef Rickett's kitchen and all the places Matt Foster, our custodian knows about. Each child created a School Helper Book, writing about everyone that they talked to. Each child shared one page from their book at morning meeting. The books came home last week.

Hurray for Valentine's Day!

We spent the previous week making valentines, creating cards for our buddies and making our hearts to take home. On Valentine's Day we baked cookies and had a small party in the afternoon. We put cards in everyone's bag during rest time and the children were thrilled to find goodies in their bags.

Quick Images in Math

We are finishing a math unit on numbers and measurement. Quick images have been popular. We put an image on a screen. After the children study it for 5 seconds, we cover the image and ask them to reproduce it on their board. We are interested in hearing what they tell themselves about the image as they study it.

Ice Sculptures

We have had a great time learning about snow, ice, freezing and melting. The highlight was building ice sculptures with our buddies. There were some outside our classroom window and some in the courtyard. Each child made a snowman with one or two things they had learned about ice and water and posted it on the bulletin board in our classroom. A few children added snow to the scene, using cotton balls and white paint.

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Winter Is Here

The children are going out twice a day. Please be sure to send hats and mittens as the weather is very cold!

Children are asking to go to Dennise for cough drops. If you would like your child to have cough drops at school, please send some in a bag with your child's name on it. We will ask Dennise to keep them and will send your child to her office to get a cough drop. If you don't send any in , we will tell your child that they can not have cough drops. Thanks for your help with this.

If you would like to help out, we try to keep some snacks at school for children who do not have a snack. We would love some donations to our snack supply. Things like pretzels, goldfish, crackers etc. are very welcome. Thank you.

The Dreidl Game

We read a story about the history of Hanukkah last week. We learned to play the dreidl game and "lighted" the menorah. We have also been working on something to give to our 6th grade buddies.

Patterns and More Patterns

We are stumped! Do you count the number of cubes in a pattern to decide how many units are in the pattern? Or do you count a unit each time the pattern starts to repeat? Suddenly two cubes (or even three) count as one!! In the picture we have an arrow pattern on the chart and are using our bodies to show up and down.