Week 17

Happy New Year!

It has been a great start back in 2019, with many exciting things planned for the year.  The first, and most exciting, is welcoming student teachers Rebecca Deobald and Jessie McCauley to our classrooms until April 12th as they build their teaching practice under our supervision.  They have already shown so much potential, and the students are quickly warming up to them, and it is only the first week!

First of all, Winter Sports Day on Friday was cancelled due to ice on the compound and in the field.  It will be rescheduled for March.  We will let you know more information closer to the day.

We hope that you all enjoyed the winter stories that the students brought home before the break.  They worked so hard on them, and were so proud of what they created!  Definitely a keepsake that you will have for years.

This week we talked about New Years Resolutions, and came up with at least 3 of our own.  Each student had to come up with a resolution for themselves, something to help others, and one to help the world.  As the week went on the children referred back to their resolutions when they were building new skills or thinking of their evening plans.

In math we continued our talk around balancing equations.  The students practiced using the greater than, less than, equal to, and not equal to.  We reminded ourselves that a number sentence can be reversed, or that both sides of the equation can have an addition or subtraction question.

We began looking at hot and cold for our science inquiry, and even did an experiment led by Ms. Deobald.  We were looking at the effectiveness of 3 different insulators on a boiling cup of water.  We used tinfoil, newspaper, and a wool sock.  Ask your child which insulator held in the heat the best.

We learned a bit about pointillism this week, and how we can use dots to create art.  We used our prior knowledge about how to draw a snowflake, and then used white paint and a q-tip to make dots on our drawings.  The finished snowflakes look amazing!

This week we will be beginning to look at poetry in writing, creating our own problems for math, and continuing to look at hot and cold, with more focus on cold!