Celebrations

Our K-4 Winter Concert is Monday, December 22 at 1:00 pm. Please join us as our students celebrate winter with song.

On Tuesday, December 23, we will have a classroom party. You do not need to bring anything in – I will provide a small snack.

I hope you all have a happy and safe Christmas!

Dates to Remember

Newsletters and other notices have come home, but December is a busy month so I want to remind families of some important dates:

Tuesday, December 16 - 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
                                        book celebration day
                                        (students may wear pajamas)

Monday, December 22 - Winter Concert for grades K-4 at 1:00

Tuesday, December 23 - Noon dismissal

Car Ramps and Catapults

Writing Workshop is looking a lot like science class these days! Working with the concepts of simple machines and forces and motion, we are learning to write like scientists.  Instead of stories, we are writing "Lab Reports".  We are using scientific ideas such as question, hypothesis, procedure, results, and conclusion to write in a way that will inform our readers.  

In order to write like a scientist, we need to be scientists!  So far we have performed experiments that involve the distance a toy car will travel off a ramp on tile floor and on carpet; and the distances a ping-pong ball and cotton ball will travel when shot out of a catapult.

It is a shared opinion in our class that science and writing are fun!