Valentine's Day
/This week our mathematicians have been hard at work examining, counting, and learning about money. Their Otter restaurant is open for business and they’ve been using their knowledge of coin values to pay for their meals and make change. We’ve been examining money from all over the world! Next week we will create a graph of where all our currency is from. We will also be having a guest speaker come in to share his coin collection with us. We can’t wait!
Otters each wrote 17 valentines for their friends and teachers in our community. They also created their own valentine mailboxes. Otters followed a recipe to make sugar cookies for the celebration. On Friday afternoon we distributed our handmade cards and decorated the cookies we baked. We enjoyed watching a friendship slideshow while eating our cookies. Then we spent time reading and admiring the cards we received from one another. It was a sweet celebration of friendship and community.
Ms. Julie helped us harvest our winter kale and Swiss chard this week. The winter garden beds we created worked great and we harvested enough greens to share with the other classes in the school.
Other highlights of the week included examining interesting rocks, learning about Ukraine, having a special lamb visitor, learning to play Dragonwood, and meeting several new undergraduate volunteers who will be helping in our classrom each week. We are excited to have more teachers joining our Otter community!
