Project Snowman

We had a great time making our snowmen.  Thank you all for sending in all the supplies!  Today we made a name tag for them and also created at "Flake"book profile page.  So cute!

Pieces of our Community

We entered an art contest this week.  Students worked together to make pictures of a safe community.  The final product is going to the police precinct.  The winning class in Portland will get to eat lunch with the chief of police!  Here is our attempt.

Eraser Characters

Last week we finished reading a book called Max's Logbook by Marissa Moss.  In that story, the main character, Max, enjoyed drawing on his erasers and writing comics about them.  So in class each student got two erasers to make characters for some future stories.  I can't guarantee that erasers at home will not have faces on them in the future!  Be on the lookout for your child's story about the eraser people!

Sugar Cone Christmas Trees

In writing class the students are learning how to write functional pieces.  Their first how-to paper was a recipe to make Snow Cone Christmas Trees.  They had to follow the directions and make the tree without help from me.  They did a great job and now might have a new tradition to start at home every year!  Thank you to all the parents who sent in supplies to make this happen!

Capture the Moment

Last month we had a special visitor from the Portland Japanese Garden come and visit our classroom.  Ms. Kvitka brought in pictures from previous calendars of the garden representing all of the seasons.  Students were given a picture and used all five senses to write down words describing the picture.  We will be going back to the gardens in spring and taking photos to capture moments to write a haiku about.  Be sure to use your free pass to visit the garden.  It's beautiful year-round!

Pumpkin Math

We had a great time last week in math class working with pumpkins!  We estimated the circumference, height, width, and number of pumpkin seeds.  Then the students actually measured and counted all the seeds.  We had a lot of seeds in those small pumpkins! 

Mr. Bare Bones

Dr. Borman came for a visit today with a skeleton from his school.  He showed the students the different bones and talked about the two types of sockets.  Students really enjoyed the demonstration and had a lot of interesting questions.  Thanks for visiting us!