Penguin Reports

This week we continued to work hard on our penguin reports.  At the beginning of this week we organized our notes on a graphic organizer to help plan our report.  We are now using the information from our planners to create reports using complete sentences.  This has been a lot of hard work, but time well spent!  I have been so impressed with the work everyone is doing.  It is nice to see the progress everyone has made in writing since the beginning of the school year.  Next week we will finish writing our reports and create life sized penguins that support our learning about penguins.  My hope is to have these completed by the end of next week so we can invite our families in one afternoon the following week for a penguin report sharing party.  I will post a firm date sometime next week when I have a better idea of when everyone will be ready for this.

We are still planning to snowshoe next Friday (Feb. 4th) and the following Friday (Feb. 11th).  We are still looking for volunteers to join us for this activity.  As of now, we have only two volunteers.  Many thanks to Holly Whitcomb for offering to lead an indoor activity for us on one of these dates as well.  We are still looking for a volunteer to lead an indoor activity the other week.

Next week we will begin a unit about magnets.  We will be learning about magnets and magnetic fields, and doing experiments with magnets.  If anyone has an interest or a lot of knowledge in this area and you would like to come in and share it with us, please send me an email.  We love to have parent "experts" join us for our learning.