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| Students were excited to discover their "ice baby" survived the week in the insulated shelter they made last week at ECO! We might not have any snow on the outdoors, but the classroom has been abuzz with a festive spirit! This week we began our favorite projects of the year...Secret Pals! The classroom has been transformed into a workshop with students sewing, building, sculpting and creating. Students began last week with the planning process by thoughtful planning a project to create for their secret pal. In this process they had to think about why the project they chose or designed was a good one for their Secret Pal. Throughout the project process, students are problem solving, reflecting, and persevering. During literacy we have been focusing on phonological awareness ( hearing and manipulating sounds in words), phonics (matching sounds we hear to individual or groups of letters in reading and spelling), as well as reading fluency and comprehension. Students have earned their next reading reward. We will be saving this for the week before vacation and we will have a PJ day and movie to celebrate (shhh...the kids don't know yet!). In Math first graders are working on adding and subtracting fluency to 10, second graders have been solving word problems using addition and subtraction within 100, and third graders are finding perimeter and area using multiplication. This week during ECO students worked in groups to create "bear dens" applying what they had learned about insulation last week with their "Ice Baby" experiments. This work involved planning, collaborating, and problem solving. We measured the temperature inside the den before and after the dens were insulated.   Lunch:  Thanks you to Kat Gabaree for the delicious Tuscan Italian Soup, bread, and hot cocoa cupcakes on Friday for our Family Hot Lunch. Friday Family Hot Lunch is provided by the Audets on Friday, December 16th (TBD) |
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