Another Busy Week!

Last week the Adventurers team went to the Flynn Theater to see "One Green Earth" by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.  It was a terrific show, beautiful music and great messages to children about keeping our earth clean.  It tied in nicely with the VSO's petting zoo we had visited the week before.

This week we created and solved lobster problems in math.  Most of our class decided to create subtraction problems and I was impressed with how easily everyone was able to solve their classmates' problems.  We also learned a new money game for workstations.  Next week we will learn two more games for workstations and continue to work on problem solving.

We have been reading, listening to, and creating poetry during writers' workshop.  We will continue to learn about poetry until the December break.  We started meeting in our new guided reading groups during readers' workshop.  We have also been learning about different comprehension strategies good readers use.  We have been using post-it notes to write down our connections to the books we are reading.

Our HyperStudio project is done and was a great success.  Every student has created a slide with text and a picture of his/her learning about Native Americans long ago and today.  I have been trying to put this project on the blog, but despite all my efforts there seems to be no way to upload it!  I'm in the process of putting it on a CD and will be sending it home for your child to share with you. 

Henry taught us many new things about volcanoes this week for the science table.  He did a terrific job putting together a great project for this week's table.


This week we also began a new unit in science.  We are now learning about the water cycle.  This unit will continue into January and will end with a trip to ECHO to support our learning.

Many thanks to everyone for supporting our efforts at the Craft Fair.  Although it was a lot of work, it was also a big success. The Adventurers Team raised $1,157.81.  I have no idea where the extra penny came from, but it was there?!  This money will be used for field trips to ECHO, Flynn Theater, Shelburne Farms and Fairbanks Museum. 

Thanks to Kim Stevens for providing us with another healthy Friday snack today.  It was delicious!  And thanks to Holly Whitcomb for sending in a delicious surprise coffee cake for Sam's holiday share.  It has been so much fun hearing about different families' holiday traditions!  I look forward to hearing more next week!

Have a terrific weekend and try to stay warm!!!!!!