Just as all things were modified this year we had a new way to send off our second graders who are moving on to Mallet's Bay school next year. On the afternoon of the last day of school kindergarten and first grade classes lined the driveway along the back of our building holding signs of congratulations and the four second grade classes had a procession wearing their own, hand-made graduation caps so we could all cheer them on! This was such a wonderful way to wish them well and send them off!
This year we had a modified field day at our school where classes rotated between game stations outdoors as opposed to spending a day at Airport Park and, actually, it was lovely! We had a great time playing Jedi Ball, Medic Tag, doing relay races, and jumping in a bounce house!
During our last week of school we tye dyed shirts in our classroom! After the shirts were washed classmates got to sign each other's and then everyone wore them on our field day!
As our last PBIS school celebration of the year all of our classes took a turn to walk to the Village Scoop for ice cream! Such a fun treat especially as our one field trip of the year this crazy year!
For our spring science unit we are learning about plants! We planted rye grass and alfalfa together in cups and are observing their growth and we also "planted" wheat seeds in straws to watch what happens on both ends of the seed. For our wheat experiment we put some straws by the window and some in the closet so that we can observe the difference between those exposed to light and those that are not. So far both have sprouted and we discussed that seeds do sprout in the dark (underground) but in order to grow into a healthy plant they will need light. We are predicting to see a difference as the experiment continues. So far the sprouts by the window are greener than those in the closet (which are pretty white).
Today was a rainy Friday afternoon so we made a plant art project to show the different parts of a plant!
We have been learning about fact families for a couple of weeks now and as a fun, Friday, spring activity kids made Fact Family butterflies to hang on our windows.
Our third trimester is all about nonfiction! We are reading nonfiction and learning about text features, and we learning how to research and write nonfiction reports! Our research and report writing began with everyone in our class researching and writing about penguins and now students are working on researching animals of their own choice! Next we will do a larger research project focused on sharks. This trimester/unit is always lots of fun!
This week we ended up having both a classroom and a whole school celebration for meeting our PBIS goals!
In class we filled our Champ Band bucket and had a paper plane celebration. Many students in our class enjoy making paper planes so we decided that as our celebration everyone would make one and we would see how far they could fly down a path in the hall. Our planes traveled between 1-8 yards!
This week we just so happened to have earned a whole school celebration as well! Our whole school met our goal for Champ Bands earned and our celebration was an American Ninja Warrior course! This was set up in our gym and all classes got a chance to try it during PE! So much fun!
