March is here and hopefully we will soon see our first signs of Spring. A big thank you to our Community Helpers that came in and talked to the children last month. Officer Ryan (Madison's dad) talked about being a police officer and gave out sticker badges. Mrs. Carducci (Leah's mom) a Physician's Assistant talked
Exciting and educational are adjectives that describe this past week. We have gone further in our study of adjectives. The students have been working on describing nouns. The students have used various types of organizers and tools to work with adjectives. We took the opportunity to introduce synonyms to the students and they practiced this
This week, we expanded on our fiction writing unit. We began this style of writing by being the main character to our own pretend adventure. Over the course of the unit, we learned how to write a conflict and a solution to our story. We expanded our writing even further by using writing partners. Since
This week we were able to work together to learn more about the solar system, and space travel. We were lucky enough to have a representative from NASA come to speak with us about the preparation astronauts go through before they go into space. He also walked us through what life is like for astronauts
Last Friday, Mr. Belser volunteered his time to speak to the kindergarten and first grade students. Mr. Belser is a pilot for United Airlines. He brought in a poster of what it looks like in the cockpit. He also brought in his pilot briefcase and showed the children all the maps he has to carry
We started off the week with an exciting trip to the planetarium! The students were able to see different constellations and learned about how the further you are from the city you are the clearer the stars are in the sky. The students experienced the room getting darker and more stars appearing in the sky.