Monday, December 10, 2012

News for the Week

In Social Studies we have been learning all about maps and created our own map of a gingerbread village. 
Students worked in groups and had to plan how much space they needed for parks, water, houses, businesses, and roads then they created a map grid showing where everything in their village would be.
We are currently making our maps come to life.... creating little gingerbread houses out of milk cartons and bulding our village on sheets of 16" by 16" paper




 Our houses are starting to come together... we will be finishing our villages this week.


We have also been reading various versions of the Gingerbread Man story and are having fun comparing each of them.
We are finishing up our Pebbles, Sand and Silt unit.   Here are some pictures of the vials of sand and silt mixed with water.   We observed what happened after it had a few days to settle.

Our Nature Vision visit was a big success!  Students learned all about different types of fossils and made a fossil repleca.  Replicas can go home with students on our 12/12/12 night.


Thank you for bringing in your family cards and/or pictures!  Our class is enjoying looking at all the cards.   You can continue to bring these to school so we can add to our collection.

Winter  Music Concert:  Tuesday, 12/11/12 at 2:30 in the Commons (lunchroom).
Class Art Night:  Wednesday, 12/12/12 at 6pm in our classroom.
 
 
Congratulations to Hanako!!!  She was the winner of a random drawing from the Thanksgiving
Fitness Form Contest!
Note from the Wellness Team: 
Thanksgiving Fitness Fun Form random draw winners are K-2 Hanako M. (Subcleff/Fornia) and 3-5 Donovan H. (Davies)! Hanako and Donovan can pick up there prizes in the office tomorrow, Dec. 11. 

•  Best class participation was a fierce battle this year! Mrs. Roy's (87%) edged out Mr. Gervais's class by a mere 1%!  Mr. Sandbo will be contacting teachers to arrange the extra 1/2 hour prize play time! 

•  Christmas Fitness Forms will be going out soon! Thanks to everyone for promoting this program! 

 

 

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