Newsletter: December 12, 12016

December Late Start STEM activity

Our December late start STEM activity was building a bridge out of cotton swabs and piper cleaners and supporting it with clothespins. Students worked in pairs to build the bridges and had a 25 minute time limit.

Here's our finished projects. Due to lack of time, we took the pictures the next morning.

Newsletter December 5, 2016

Gingerbread Week

We started our Gingerbread Man week by reading a traditional version of The Gingerbread Man story, and then all week long we read different versions. Next we made a "Gingerbread Man 1st Bite Graph". Students were given a gingerbread cookie to examine. They used their senses to describe it; then as they were looking at it I asked them to take a bite of it to tell me how it tasted. We then used paper Gingerbread Men to tear of the part that was bitten first. Then students glued their men onto a graph. The next day we colored Gingerbread Men based on how certain questions were answered to make our Gingerbread Men glyphs.

We ended our week by creating our very own gingerbread houses. Everyone had their own unique way of decorating their houses. It was so much fun!

December Show & Tell Calendar

For the month of December students are asked to bring their favorite ornament to show the class.

Newsletter November 28, 2016

Thanksgiving Feast

All three classes joined to gather to make sandwiches and enjoy a Thanksgiving Feast.