Friday, December 15, 2017

Happy Holidays

Hi everyone!
Our class has had a very busy three weeks learning more about fables and fairy tales.  We worked on ideas regarding what we can learn when we read  "The Little Red" (Friends should help each other), "The Three Little Pigs" (build your house out of something stronger than straw) and "The Gingerbread Man"(Foxes can be tricky!)

This week we enjoyed catching and eating a gingerbread man! Thank you to Tara for the organizing of the decorating and all the parents who cam and helped or donated supplies...












 Today we enjoyed We Care sports assembly

and watched a sweet little movie called the Tangerine Bear - a movie about friendship and what it means to be a family.

I am touched by your generous gift this season - your children are amazing and I wish you all a lovely, a restful break!

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Amazing Insect Open House

We have spent many weeks learning as much as we could about the incredible world of insects.  Here are some of the ideas we learned about and made projects about:














Today, we shared our projects and ideas with our parents and other special adults:









Thank you everyone, students and families, for your support of learning at our school - and have a great Thanksgiving weekend!


Wednesday, November 15, 2017

More insects ideas!

Hi everyone! We are continuing to add to our understanding of insects..this week we learned that the mealworms were the larva of darkling beetles! So we explored the mealworm life cycle.
We also learned more about how insects protect themselves from predators - we researched ideas then created a poster and project.








Earlier in the week we made some cute turkey art using different kinds of lines...


We have had a busy week and are working hard to wrap up our final insect projects. See you soon!

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Halloween week

 Hi everyone!
WE continue to explore ideas about insects together and observe our mealworms grow...but this week, the excitement was Halloween!
we explored graphing concepts using candy!




And yes, we also ate some!


The next day we learned more about recycling with a free metro puppet show! Kenji and the 3 R's

On November 1st we made our monthly calendar art!



Today we learned more about what insects eat and made a project to teach others what we had learned.  Enjoy your 3 day weekend!

Friday, October 27, 2017

A quick update

We had another busy week learning about insects enjoying this wonderful fall weather.
We also had a fantastic time with our third grade buddy classroom who taught us how to fold "fortune tellers".  They were so patient and kind - it was a magical moment.
Enjoy some pictures - the kids were having a great time with the fall leaves, proving that some of the best things in life are free....