More book shares!

 This week we had book shares from Jordan, Ali, Olivia, Henry and John.  Everyone chose terrific books to read and did a fantastic job reading their stories.  Way to go everyone!

Today Jordan's family sent in cheese sticks and apples for Friday snack.  A big thank you to Jordan and her family for that delicious snack.



It has been great to get back into the classroom today after spending the past two days in a math class.  We spent math time today playing math games and are looking forward to kicking off our farm unit on Monday.  This will be the last math unit of the school year!


As the end of the school year approaches, we will be winding down with homework routines.  I believe very strongly in the importance of children having time to play and we will hopefully be having some beautiful weather so everyone can get out there and play! 

Hands On Nature and "Knights" !

Another free scrapbooking design by Smilebox Today's Hands On Nature lesson was about weather.  We learned about different kinds of clouds, wind, temperature and all the different things that create weather.  We watched a puppet show, observed an  experiment, and made cloud pictures and weather vanes.  We then went outside to observe wind direction using our weather vanes and bubbles and clouds.  A big thank you to our Hands On Nature parents! Reid shared his science table about knights today.  We learned what a knight was and what period of time they lived.  We also learned about their horses, swords and armor.  Great job, Reid!

Shelburne Farms

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A great field trip to Shelburne Farms today to learn about trees!

Have a great vacation!

Sharing Favorite Books, Maple Syrup and Balls and Ramps

Free slideshow design made with Smilebox This week we continued our sharing of our favorite books.  It has been so fun to see the different kinds of books all our friends have chosen to share.  We will continue with our book shares after our spring vacation.   Jordan shared her science table about making maple syrup this week.  She taught us lots of interesting things about how maple syrup is made.  We learned how the sap is collected, how it takes A LOT of sap to make just a little syrup and she showed us examples of different syrups.  Jordan's family makes their own maple syrup and is lucky enough to enjoy that throughout the year.  Terrific job, Jordan! Our class has learned about a new, fun way to practice our math facts on the computer.  This program is called "Fastt Math", can be found on the SCS website and done from your home computer.  I am assigning it as the math homework over vacation.  Your child will probably be able to go on and find it, but just in case he/she can't, these are the directions:  From the SCS website go to "Curriculum", click on "Math", then click on "Fastt Math".  Your child's username is their first, then last name with no spaces.  The password is "student".  If you don't have access to a computer at home, please let me know and I will find an alternative for your child to do to practice his/her math facts.  This is meant to be a fun way for everyone to practice their facts, so please just follow your child's lead with how much time they would like to spend doing this. I hope everyone has a terrific vacation!

1/2 Music Concert Reminder

Please join us on Tuesday, April 12th, at 7:00PM in the large gym for our concert, 
“A Time for Joy.” Please have your son/daughter arrive in the cafeteria at 6:40PM. (Please, no earlier) 
Please have your child dressed appropriately. (No shorts or loose fitting shoes please)

-Diana

A Visit from Jon Gailor

This week Macy, from Pam's class, did her science table about jellyfish.  We learned that there are very small jellyfish that are deadly and that some jellyfish can be 8ft. across and 200 ft. long.  Nice job, Macy!

On Wednesday, Jon Gailor came to our kiva and performed a bunch of songs for the Adventurers and Dragonfly teams.  He gave everyone a chance to join in and become a part of this musical performance.  It was a great morning of fun and singing.

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We will be finishing up our geometry unit before break.  Our next and last unit of the year will be "My Little Farm" and will focus on money,  place value and mapping.  We will also be moving on from response to text to narrative writing after the spring break.

It has been terrific to have each student share one of his/her favorite stories this week.  It is great to see the confidence everyone has developed in reading and the ease with which they now read to the class.  We look forward to having the rest of the class share their favorite stories over the next few weeks.

We are looking forward to our field trip to Shelburne Farms next Friday (4/15).  This field trip will connect to and extend our learning about plants and trees in science.  Please make sure your child comes to school with a pocket snack  (snack that fits in their pocket) and bag lunch that day as we will not be back to school for our regular lunch time.  Please dress your child appropriately for a morning of outdoor activities.  We are looking for chaperones for this field trip so please send me an email if you are interested in chaperoning.  We will be leaving school by 8:30 am and returning at 12:15 pm.

1/2 Music Concert

Please join us on Tuesday, April 12th, at 7:00PM in the large gym for our concert,
“A Time for Joy.” Please have your son/daughter arrive in the cafeteria at 6:40PM. (Please, no earlier)
Please have your child dressed appropriately. (No shorts or loose fitting shoes please)