Open House, Weather, Star Student & Transportation Survey!

These meteorologists have put together such amazing resources as they gathered information on a variety of different clouds, storms, and weather tools!

This last week we took a transportation survey to get a "snapshot" of what types of transportation families/students are using to get to and from school... Here are our observations. 

Every week we celebrate a student in the class. This week we celebrated Bethany K. One of the many ways we celebrate these "Stars" is by interviewing them, and creating a book reflecting what is special about the Star Student. 

We had a very successful Open House! 

The answer to the estimation jar was 145 bears! Congratulations Miles Ecklund for making the closest guess! 

Painting the clouds...

 Depicting the water cycle....

Our own illustration of Chiro using his "good sense" (read in Nightsong) 

Our chant in Celebration of April! 

St. Patrick's Day, Leprechauns, Weather, & More!

These mathematicians are so focused and in charge! Here you can see some brilliant minds competing to 50 by adding with dice and solving single digit adding and subtracting problems. 

Some students reading math books and working with their 4th grade Big Buddies! 

              We spent some time looking over different pictures related to weather with a partner and jotting down notes, questions, and other observations! The students are great at negotiating with one another and navigating this activity. They are paired up, given 1 pencil and then invited to roam the room. Each pair is instructed to make notes on their observations as they go sharing their pencil and discussing their observations with one another.

Mystery Reader time!!! 

Students enjoying Dr. Seuss books :)...

Oh dear... those leprechauns... We thought we were prepared! 

Graphing with Lucky Charms...

Making rainbows with fruit loops...














Look at these adorable creations:

Such adorable little leprechauns! 

Some rhyming and describing...

My cat, Mallow, correcting the graphing work your students completed :)

A note from our leprechauns...

Rosa Parks, President Lincoln, Teamwork & Dr. Seuss!

This week went by so quickly! I am more and more blown away by these little geniuses... they are busy mastering addition, subtraction, telling time, and investigating our heroes of yesterday!

We read a story about Rosa Parks and discussed her role in changing the world. The kids were so excited to find out that she worked with Martin Luther King Jr.

The students were quite taken with her courage, and perseverance.

We have talked about the roles that Abraham Lincoln has played in our nation's history as well.






























In P.E. we have been building stamina, strengthening our muscles, and building our teamwork skills. The students are great sportsman/women cheering each other on as their partners crab walk, run, bunny hop, and bear crawl from one side to the other!

Some of the students put on a little skit for the rest of the class this week.

We have also been busy crafting our own silly, nonsensical stories inspired by Dr. Seuss in celebration of his birthday on March 2.

Friendship Week, Carrots in the Classroom, & Chinese New Year!

We have had so much fun this week! We had a wonderful time celebrating friendship with our Patwin Community by cleaning up campus, creating placemats for senior citizens, and designing teamwork posters! The students were busy at work scouting for classmates building friendships, too!

On Thursday we celebrated Chinese New Year by making Nian puppets, watching this short story, and reading about characteristics of those born in the Year of the Sheep/ Ram!

Coloring our Chinese dragons, and building friendships along the way...

We have some pretty angry looking dragons in our classroom!

Here are little snippits from our visit with Mr. Simon from the Davis Coop! We had a great time creating a story using ribbons and our imagination!

Below you will find some writing samples of stories we have been working ... our topics include our "Best Friends"  being "Lost" and an "Angry Day"! All I have to say is, "From the mouth of babes..." be prepared to be entertained! 

A "small moment" writing... all about a visit to grandma's house :)

We also came up with some adjectives to describe ourselves... this is truly a great moment in a child's life... to be able to proudly say they are creative, thoughtful, kind, funny, fast, etc. is phenomenal... I love watching them light up as they associate themselves with these complementary, accurate descriptive words...