Friendship Celebration and 100th Day
/Last week students made many discoveries in our cedar classroom. Student scientists experimented with engineering and physics as they constructed catapults and launched pinecones into their air. They also gained hands-on experience with the states of matter as they discovered water in our pond had frozen into ice overnight! During our music time with Ms. McKenzie we learned a song about ice skating and practiced our music terminology as we created joyful music together. In art and writing last week we continued creating handmade cards for classmates and preschool buddies. We also designed valentine boxes to collect our sweet messages and gifts. We used our knowledge of measurement and fractions to halve and double cookie recipes as we baked chocolate chip cookies for our friendship celebration!
This Wednesday we enjoyed our friendship celebration where we shared cards and gifts with classmates. On Friday we celebrated our 100th day of school with a feast of 100 snack items and slideshow of our first 100 days of the school year. Students wrote about what their life might be like when they are 100 years old and also about what they would do with $100. Students also shared their collections of 100 items. We admired collections of money, rocks, barrettes, legos, sport cards, shells, pine needles, books, game pieces, and more. We marveled at the difference in sizes of our collections even though each contained 100 items! This morning we gathered as a whole school for Friday Summit and met in our buddy families to connect with students from classrooms across the school. We savored getting to read with our preschool buddies and got to spend the afternoon playing math board games. We also read a Flat Stanley update from Panama this week and sent another Flat Stanley to Hawaii!
