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Holiday Party
Thank you, PTO, for providing our cookies and ornament kits for the party today. We had fun!
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Happy 2016!
We spent our first week back discussing goals for the new year. Here are some of their resolutions! We spent a little time just visiting with our friends, and sharing writing pieces we've done in our...
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Penguins, puzzles, pizzas, and snow!
We learned a lot about penguins this week, then the students created their favorite species. They are adorable! The Emperor penguin is the tallest penguin. It is about the size of a First-Grader, so...
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Teamwork!
This picture is a teacher's dream! Every student is engaged, and working together! They were creating our class snowman for a videoconference project coming up. Terrific! This week we worked on past...
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Grandma!
Wednesday was one of the greatest days of my life. My first grandchild was born! Charlie came into this world, weighing 8 pounds, 6 ounces. He is doing very well, as are mom and dad. The students...
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Our Snow Globe Families
We loved this book! We used the idea to write our own stories about living inside a snow globe with our families. We also had a snow house building activity. After each group made their house, we...
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Feeling the cold of the Arctic
We've been learning so much about the Arctic and the animals that live there, and what life is like in such a cold place. Here are some of the Inuit/Eskimo people we made this week. We had our...
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Math, Science and Social Studies activities
We've been studying other countries and cultures, and enjoyed this book, Everybody Cooks Rice. We followed that discussion with some rice of our own. We used blocks one day during a math lesson to...
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Arctic Animals Books
We worked on these informative books in our writing lessons this week. They enjoyed sharing them with friends.
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100th DAY!!
The 100th Day of School was loads of fun. Students worked in stations all day to use the number 100 in different ways. We are 100 days smarter! Some of our stations included making a 100th day...
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Valentine's Day!
We had a great week celebrating Valentine's Day. We made cards for the cafeteria workers and custodians, and took a walk to deliver them. They loved them! We did a graphing activity with little...
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Digital Learning Day
This week we celebrated a district-wide focus on technology with Digital Learning Day. We enjoyed some new apps on the iPads.
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A little drama with Goldilocks & the 3 Bears
As we studied our fairy tales this week, we took time to act out a favorite, Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Just look at those laughs and smiles!!
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Little Red and Fact Families
We enjoyed several versions of Little Red Riding Hood this week, and had fun retelling the stories with our finger puppets. We worked hard on learning how to make a fact family. We did a warm-up game...
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Children's Museum Field Trip
Our field trip was lots of fun! The students enjoyed all the various play stations at the Children's Museum. The weather was perfect for a picnic in the park on the way home!
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Here's a little video of the students with their dioramas. They turned out great! #wsite-video-container-439529421141283960{ background:...
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Things to see at Open House
Here are some of the activities we had on display at Open House this week. These are our Fact Family Neighborhood houses. After our study of adjectives, we made these mugs of hot chocolate with...
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Dr. Seuss' Birthday, Tall Tales, and a science experiment
In honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday, we celebrated the "Read Across America" event with enjoying lots of his books. We had a school-wide contest to see which class could bring in the most Dr. Seuss...
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Geometry and chalk
We've been learning about solid shapes in geometry. We used marshmallows and toothpicks to experiment with making these shapes. Here's a drawing activity we did after reading the book, Chalk....
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Jump Rope for Heart!
We had beautiful weather Friday for our much-anticipated Jump Rope for Heart event. Highlands raised an amazing $10,042 for the American Heart Association. The students had so much fun jumping rope,...
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