Baby, It's Cold Outside!

Another day off due to weather.  I know the students are excited but it makes it difficult to get things done!  Save those valentines!  We will have our party on the Monday we get back- the 23rd.  Be sure to send Flat Stanley back as well with the journal partially filled out. 
We will not make up the reading test that was missed on Friday. See the vocab/spelling pages for the new words for the week we get back.
This week's skills and concepts:
Reading: cause and effect and helping verbs; we also started a new Flat Stanley book and read books by the author who will be visiting DeSales in March, Cynthia Cotten.  Click on this link to find more about her: cotten
Math : the students are doing great with mental math and adding three digit numbers.  It's all starting to fit together!
Religion: We concentrated on Baptism this week.  The children read aloud their Baptism interviews.  We talked about the celebrations that welcomed them into their churches.
 Science: we learned about Arctic animals and set up an evaporation experiment, see below.

In less than a week about 1/2 cup evaporated!

 We also used the scientific process to learn whether mittens are warm.
Everyone hypothesized that mittens are warm but the experiment showed us that it is not the mitten, but the hand inside the mitten that generates heat.

Enjoy the Winter Break!

Important Dates:
2/23- Flat Stanley, journal, stamps, and address due  back to school
and Valentine party
2/25- Mass 9:40 
3/5- Family Reading Night at DeSales