Living Things / Send In Your Outgrown Clothes / Friend-SHIPS

Students really enjoyed exchanging valentines last Thursday.

Friend-SHIPS
In order to raise money for solar panels, the middle school students are are having a fundraiser.  They have been busy making paper boats. The fundraiser is called "Friend-Ships".  Middle schoolers will write a custom message on a paper boat and delivered it to the recipient's classroom.  It cost's 50 cents a boat, but if you want to donate more that would be appreciated.  If you are interested purchases are best facilitated at lunch.  They are working on a way for parents to be able to order them for their kids.  You could also sit down with your kindergartner, choose someone to send one too, write out a message and send in 50 cents (or more!).  Putting the whole thing in an envelope would be really helpful.

Home Reading Bags
Keep sending in those Home Reading ziploc bags so I can change out the books.

Valentine's Day
Thank you for helping your child complete those valentines.  They really enjoyed passing them out to each other.  I posted a video on Seesaw.

100th Day of School
The 100th day of school is this Friday!  Bring your 100th day projects by that day.

Extra Clothing
If you have any clothing that your children have grown out of, we welcome it here.  The office is looking for clothing as well as the young fives classroom.  Please send it in to me and I will distribute where it can be best used.

Curriculum Overview

Science -  We have begun our next Project Based Learning unit!  The questions driving our learning are:  What do plants and animals need to survive? AND What do I need to survive? Last Thursday we had a classroom discussion about what plants need to survive and I challenged the students to come up with ways to prove that plants need water, light, and air to survive.  From those ideas we started an experiment to prove what plants really needed in order to live.  This week we will be learning more about the different parts of a plant and their functions.

Reading -  This week we will read some more fiction books that show friendships and caring classrooms.  We will also read some non-fiction books about plants.

Writing - We will do some non-fiction writing.  We will diagram plants and write about some of the experiments we have set up in the classroom.

Math - This week we will read and create graphs.

Word Study - Students are learning the long and short sound of each vowel.

It snowed a lot in Ann Arbor yesterday!