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Celebrating Dr. Seuss's Birthday

To celebrate and recognize the author's birthday, we read his books and made creations inspired by his characters and illustrations.


Come check out their creations in the sunroom!

Measurement Continues with Mrs. Watson's Math Group

This week our students explored measurement with thermometers, measuring cups, and scales! We ended the week with making puppy chow-they had a great time and were very excited about all the new tools they used.

We compared the temperatures inside and outside. They even left them on the heating vent and ran outside to see how fast it changed.

Here is a view of us cooking-we made a mess, but had fun! Here is the recipe:

1/2 cup butter
1 cup creamy peanut butter
2 cups milk chocolate chips
1 (17.5 ounce) package crispy corn and rice cereal
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Cooking is a great activity to do at home. You can even work on doubling the recipe! Other activities are to look at the weight of items-they used the terms heavy, small, and equal. Talking about the weather and the temperature would help extend their knowledge as well-here is a website for kids and weather: http://www.theweatherchannelkids.com/weather-center/

Here is another fun website with lots of measurement games: http://pbskids.org/games/measurement.html

More Measurement

Ms. Parks' group continued working on time. In these pictures the students are working on a timeline of an imaginary day. They got to design their own special day! They also worked on timelines of their lives.

Eric and Chase working a timeline of their Special Day

Miles and Will helping each other with their timelines

Olivia's Life Timeline

College Students

This afternoon, college students came to teach our class as part of their Health, Safety, and Nutrition course. The kids are always so excited to work with them and it's truly a learning experience for both college students and elementary students. Here are a few snapshots from this afternoon...

Becoming Part of a Story

This afternoon during social studies, our class worked in groups to write plays based on one of the books we've read and discussed. After learning how to summarize a story, each group began writing a summary of their chosen book. Here are a few snapshots from our afternoon...

Chase, Natalie, Ethan, Lindy, and Will (not pictured) wrote a play of Henry's Freedom Box.

Miss Taylor worked with Lilly and Savannah's group as they wrote a play for Moses.

Dr. Willey met with some older students to prepare for the 85th birthday celebration taking place tomorrow!

Mrs. Watson's Math Group Explore Area and Perimeter

This week we have been measuring the area and perimeter of various objects and understanding the basics of these concepts. Today, as a class, we decided to measure around the rug they were sitting on. This was a pretty big task for this group! We figured it would be easier to place the cubes in trains of 10-then when we were finished we could break it apart and count together. The students figured out there were 10 groups of 10 to make 100 and that is when they organized the cubes into groups of 100. With support we all counted them (by 10's). When we realized there was 540 cubes, they wanted to know how to write it. They each took turns attempting to write this number. Below is a short video of some highlights! Enjoy!