Book Swap

Everyone picked a number, but waited to open it up until all the children had one.  We went in number order from 1-15 to pick a book.

Everyone opened their books at the same time.

Then everyone turned and talked to a partner to talk about the book they received

We ended the day with a Whole School Sing-A-Long in the Cafeteria.  There were 3 surprises......

1.  We did a Manniquin Challenge

2.  Mrs. Rhuda's daughter sang for us.

3.  The Steward Staff performed a fun song for us.

Enjoy the Holidays!

How many are in the jar?

The children made a lot of predictions about how many tree erasers were in our jar.  Most of the children made a second guess after we counted the first hundred.  We made rows of 10 to make it easier to count.  Jett came the closest with a guess of 120.

Reader's Theater with Miss Reid's 2nd Grade Class

Miss Reid's Class performed the Gingerbread Man Story.  

The Polar Express Pajama Day

We have our tickets to the Polar Express ready.

The Polar Express Story in the Library followed by a fun sing a long.

A special snack of hot chocolate with marshmallows and Oreos.

Writer's Workshop with Mrs. Lacourciere

We are becoming very good writers as we think of a variety of people, places, and things that we love.  We are sketching our the beginning, middle and end of our ideas and will be working toward publishing our own books.  We'll keep you posted.  

Holiday Concert and Party

KIndergarteners, Kindergarteners, what do you see on this dark, dark night?

Blue Snowpants - 5T

A pair of blue snow pants were left behind at school.  They are a 5 T and the brand is Cherokee.

The Marshmallow Challenge

We were given a bag of materials to build a tower that would stand on it's own with the marshmallow on top.  The materials were:

1 marshmallow

20 pieces of uncooked spaghetti

1 yard of tape

1 piece of string

This was a tricky, but fun challenge.  Two of our groups were able to make their tower stand up. 1 of them was a short tower that stayed standing for a long time and 1 was a tall tower that stood for a short time.

Thoughts about the Marshmallow Challenge

 Mason - ours stood up 

Alessia - it was fun being timed

Maeva - tricky 

Aoife - we tried our best

Jack - we tried our very, very best

Matthew - it was fun

Benjamin - we got to see other people's classes

Molly - we tried our very best

Sylvia - me and Cyra tried our very best, but it didn't stand up

Jed - I liked when we saw other people's towers

Cameron - we didn't have another idea

Dylan - sort of worried because ours didn't look like it would stand up

Jett - it was fun

Lucas - I liked going to the people's classes

Maddie - it couldn't stand up

Drew - it was fun

Some of our feelings about The Marshmallow Challenge

"it felt hard"

"worried if our tower wouldn't stand up"

"a little worried that we wouldn't make it in time"

Learning Walk Through

We walked through all of the classroom with the whole school.  We observed so many different towers and noticed many that were able to stand on their own and many that could not.

Some of our observations during the learning walk through were.....

"One of the towers was tall"

"one of the classes had one that looked like a teepee"

"i liked the mini one that we saw when we walked into one of the classrooms"

"a tower looked like a person"

"one of the classrooms had one that looked like a teepee and a house"

After seeing many of the different towers that were able to stand up, the majority of our class would like to try this challenge again.

Some things that they might do differently would be....................

"make it stand up"

"make a base on the bottom"

"make it a different way"take a stick 

"put lots of sticks on the bottom and tape them together and then tape a stick standing straight up and put the marshmallow on"

"add a little pasta and then the marshmallow and tape around the legs"

"make a little flat surface and stick it to the spaghetti so it would stand up"

Author visit

Jarrett Krosoczka

Jarrett drew a picture of one of his characters from his book.

We were inspired to work in our journals.  Some of the children made up their own stories with unique character and some of the children wrote about their favorite part of the author visit.

Wednesday Read A Loud Assembly

 The whole school read books in the hallway.

Such Fun!!