March Students of the Month!

It's that time again, the end of a busy month! 

Everyone could have earned this award this month, but Ari and Allie brought it home. They are the first ones to the floor if a friend spills or if there's a disagreement they make a good choice. These two have so much patience with themselves and have overcome some nerves in the last month! 

Great work girls! Keep it up! :)

Swimming at the Y

It took a long time to get them up, but here they are! We had a FANTASTIC time swimming at the Y!! It was a great experience for each and every one of us. We had some butterflies in our bellies at first, but, needless to say, they fluttered on their way soon enough! 

We had some noodle races!

We pretended we were trees and Miss A chopped us down into the pool!

And just hung out enjoying the fun! 

Matter at home!!

We watched Bill Nye and the phases of Matter this afternoon. Our focus has been on the three stages, but we are moving towards the changes in matter. A fun experiment to do at home with matter is making your own ROCK CANDY! It's a make then set aside so the sugar energy can be saved for the weekend :) 

DIY: Rock Candy

Have fun!! 

Verb Tense Activities

With your computer buddy and a splitter, click the URL link below.
It will take you to the Verb Tense page. Click the green button that says Featured Games.

You will be working on the activity Which Word Sentences. It is in the top row of elementary activities and all the way to the right side. 

You will need to read the sentences with a blank, then pick the best choice to fill in the blank with the correct Verb Tense! 

Spelling City: Verb Tenses

Busy as bees!!

This has been a very busy month with more fun to come! We have finally been able to schedule the trip to the Sugar Shack so that is also on our list of upcoming events.

March 25- Scholastic Book Fair FAMILY NIGHT: Please come to shop the fair with your student and enjoy some delicious ice cream, as though we don't already have enough ICE! Time is still TBD!

April 2- Sugar Shack! We will work again with Mr. Avery to tap some trees and check out the evaporating process! 

FRIDAY SWIMMING

We will be walking to the Y for our Swim Gym. In addition to their own bathing suit and towel, each student needs their snow pants and boots! March so far has been unpredictable. I would prefer everyone have too many clothes and not need them. We will be damp from the swim so I want to take all precautions to prevent colds!

Tree tapping

Mr. Avery, from the Sugar Shack, came to help us tap four maple trees on Tuesday! It was a beautiful afternoon and we all had high hopes of seeing sap drip right away. We thought the perfect temperature would yield great results! 

It was a challenging hike even though it was right behind the school! The sticky snow was slippery under our boots. Once we made it to the marked trees, Mr. Avery let students help with each step of tapping. 

Mr. Avery told us about different types of taps, or spiles!

Justin had to be careful to get the angle of the hole just right to allow the sap to flow down into the spile. Next we had to make sure we cleaned the hole out, poke out any dirt or spiders!

Jenelle found the perfect twig for the job!

We then wanted to make sure the tap was nice and snug in the tree. After all, sap was going to continually drip into the bucket, potentially getting very heavy! Once the bucket is hung, Mr. Avery showed us how to put a lid, or hat, on the bucket securely. He explained that it helps keep leaves, animal droppings and bark out of our delicious sugar water! 

Courtney stepped up to the plate!

When we checked on the buckets yesterday, there was not much to see. The students were eager where it was nearly 50 degrees! But there is a little down there at the bottom of the barrel! 

Sap to Syrup

We joined Mrs. Reesman's class on Thursday for an introduction to the tree tapping process from Mrs. St Peter! We learned about the materials you need in order to gather sap, what types of trees are best and even what the weather needs to be like! It is quite a process. 

We are starting our first informational writing piece about tree tapping.  Some of us have already read a short article to help with the building blocks and our research will continue next week!

March Madness continues!

There are a great many things coming to us in the upcoming month! The list will be modified as we go so keep an eye out!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS :) 

March 6- Winter Wellness Day: Walk to the YMCA at 12 and return around 1:30

March 10- Francis Avery comes to tap trees with us!

March 13- Old Town Maps due!! Contact me with any questions!

March 19- Scholastic Book Fair PREVIEW: we'll be getting to check out all the books on sale at the fair. No purchases- we will be making wish lists!

March 20- Swim gym at the YMCA. We will swim for an hour in lieu of traditional phys ed! FUN!!
Permission slips back BEFORE March 18 please

March 24- Scholastic Book Fair PURCHASES! We will have time to go as a class to purchase books from our wish list! 

March 25- Scholastic Book Fair FAMILY NIGHT: Please come to shop the fair with your student and enjoy some delicious ice cream, as though we don't already have enough ICE! Time is still TBD! 

Winter Wellness Day

What a PACKED day!! It felt like we were always on the move. 

We started off with a bang with 10 super spellers! They aced all of their regular spelling words this week. Homophones are kind of tricky but we worked with quite a few this week! We played guess the word where they had to get hints from their peers about the word on their back, looked up definitions on our laptops and made Homophone "Pears"! 

Ms A put together a great collection of winter activities for the Winter Expo! We got to explore on our own the wide variety of activities. Mr. Cyr was talking about downhill skiing, Mrs. Bagley was sharing her birdwatching knowledge with us and Ms. A even had a station set up about ice fishing and traditional snowshoes! It was very cool to see the change over time. 

Jackson and Brendan spent most of their time with Ms A! 

Oceanna spied the cardinal Mrs. Bagley had hung across the gym!

 The wood carver who visited let the students play with his work! Jordan favorite was the grasshopper; its legs "hopped" as you pulled it along. 

More to come about our adventures to the Y! 

Have a great weekend :) 

Mass Matters

We made predictions...

I think what will happen is that the golf ball is going to push the jello box further than the little bouncy ball because the golf ball is heaver than the little bouncy ball. One ball is huge and one is small. The bouncy ball is the small ball and the big ball is the golf ball.

- Jackson

In our team we did not change the jello box.

It was on it's side!

It was always flat!!!!

-Emma

Then we reflected and, sometimes were spot on or were surprise by the results!

I think the big one will have more impact because it is bigger and slower. The small one will have more impact because it is faster and smaller and lighter. Instead of the smaller one having bigger impact I was wrong because it actually went slower. I set the box sideways. I was not surprised at what happened because it worked just like I thought. The big ball had more impact. 

- Caleb

The golf ball/ ball 1 just went down and it pushed the Jello box 1 inch. Now the bouncy ball hit the Jello box 4 inches. My team placed the Jello box standing up straight. Then I was surprised that my guess was wrong. After my team and I were done we saw how much IMPACT the balls gave and my team and I saw that the most IMPACT made was by the golf ball.

- Karma