Holiday Sing-along and Party

Wednesday, December 21 everyone at UMS had lots of holiday fun! We had a whole-school sing-along in the morning where our music teacher, Ms. Mutz, led everyone in singing lots of songs about Christmas, Hannukah, and Kwanzaa that the students had practiced during music class. We finished the sing-along with the teachers getting up to do a surprise rendition of Jingle Bell Rock! In the afternoon each classroom had a party. Our class made Rudolph craft projects, taught our parents and siblings how to play the driedel game, had our own sing-along, and finished with some wonderful treats! Thank you to all of the family members who joined our party! It is always so nice to have you spend time in our classroom! I hope your holiday break was lots of fun and we will see you in the New Year!

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Holiday Projects

Over the past two weeks our class has been learning about different December holidays, reading many wonderful holiday books and creating lots of fun crafts projects. We made paper poinsettias, paper plate santas, 3D Christmas trees, paper wreaths, thumb-print Rudolph cards, and hand-tracing menorahs. When I told the class that I would be making a blog post about this the kids asked me to write a request that you not look at the photo slideshow until Christmas! Many of them have been taking these projects home to hide away as gifts. So this is your "spoiler alert!" The photos below show the class making our varous holiday projects!

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Magnets

For the past three weeks our class has been studying magnets! We have been reading books and conducting experiments to discover many of the fascinating ways that magnets work! We learned about types of magnets and how magnets attract and repel. Children experimented to discover that magnets are strongest at their poles, a small magnet can sometimes be stronger than a large magnet, and only some types of metals attract to magnets. We also learned that the earth is a giant magnet! During certain experiments we practiced predicting the outcome before we conducted the actual experiment. Students predicted which objects would "stick" to their magnet and which objects could be placed between a magnet and a paper clip without preventing the magnet from attracting the paperclip. Our book of experiments is coming home tonight so you can see many of the things we learned! We had so much fun with this unit! If you ask, your child should be able to tell you the meaning of the vocabulary: magnet, attract, repel, north pole, south pole, compass, and force.

I have added new photos to our magnet experiment slideshow, so even if you have seen it before, give it another look!

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