Saturday, February 28, 2015

100 Day Hooray!

     On Thursday we celebrated the 100th Day of School!  With all of the snow days, the date had to be pushed back several times but we finally got there.

Each group of students were given 100 items and 8 minutes to build something with them.  It was wonderful practice at working together in a group and problem solving!  This group had 100 Legos.

This group used 100 unifix cubes.

Here they are using 100 mixed items: blocks, dominoes, etc.

This group had fun using 100 pattern blocks.
This shows about half of the list we made of 100 things we've learned so far in school. We could have gone on, and on, and on.... 
Locker Art:  the next photos show the pennants we made that say we are 100 days smarter!  We also made rainbow pots of gold for St. Patrick's Day.  (Ask your child what ROY G BIV means :-) Each child wrote something that they would buy for someone else with their pot of gold.


With all of the white stuff outside, it's nice to see color on the walls!

We shared some of the adventures that we had with Flat Stanley over the vacation.  He visited Florida, went to jail, went to farms, had a pool party with friends, went to a basketball game, and many, many more things.  We had such fun listening to each classmate read some of his/her journal.  I am always thrilled by the excitement this project generates.  The bulletin board pictured above is ready for the Flat Stanleys that are being sent back to us.  We will mark all of the places they have been.  I've been told that Stanley has even done some international travel!  I will keep you posted.

Remember our evaporation experiment?  All of the water had evaporated by the time we returned from Winter Break.

Each Friday Mrs. B comes in to talk to us about conflict resolution, being our best, and talking about our feelings.  It is a wonderful way to end our week. 
 Other lessons:
Math: We finished triple digit addition and now we are moving on to triple digit subtraction.  Some of the students are even getting excited about that Mental Math that frustrates some parents so!  We also had fun with Miss Agostini's class when we got together for Math Club.
SS: This month we learned about some famous African Americans
ELA: This week we read descriptions in our reading text and tried to write our own.  We also worked on irregular past tense verbs and  read books and reader's theater for the 100th day.

Important Dates:
Monday, 3/2- PARP kick off- wear PJ's to school!
Thursday, 3/5- Family Reading Night- I will running some activities there along with other teachers and parents.   I hope to see everyone!  Author Cynthia Cotten will be visiting us that day to talk to the children. Check out her link to learn more about her: http://cynthiacotten.com/