To party the book we made chocolate candy bars.
We are reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. There are 30 chapters.We are on the 26 chapter. It is called The Television Chocolate Room and they are about to go into the Television Room. Only Charlie and Mike Teavee are left. All the other kids have gone. Augustus Gloop goes up the pipe is the chapter about a fat boy who goes up a pipe a chocolate pip. It was horrible. Next we have Violet Beauregarde she chews gum and she is skinny. It happened at a gum machine. She took the gum out of the gum machine and when she started to chew the gum she started to turn violet and she turned in to a blueberry. Next is Veruca Salt. She went in the nut room and wanted a squirrel but she was a bad nut so she went down in to the trash pipe. Mike Teavee was sent by television and shrunk. Last is Charlie Bucket the HERO.
To party the book we made chocolate candy bars.
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We celebrated the 50th day of school. First Ms. Miller took our pictures in our 50s outfits. Then we did morning work. Then the first graders went into Mrs. Tracy's room for reading. The second graders came in for reading. Then it was recess. After recess was over we had lunch. Then we got bubble gum and we blew bubbles. Then we got a paper and wrote "How to Blow A Bubble." We saw Buddy Holly dancing because one of us dressed as Buddy Holly. Then we had math. There were a lot of activities about 50. We had to do all of them. Then we learned about states of matter with root beer floats and we got to drink root beer floats. It was the best day of school! We went to the school garden first. Then we used the apple press.
Before we cut the apples in half. Then Ms. Dion poured the sliced apples into the apple press. We ground up the apples with the wheel.Then we used the giant screw to press the apples. Kade held the pitcher and out came juicy apple cider. yuuuuuuummmm! It was sooo good we brought the last to the office for Ms. Brenda, Ms. Roffo and Mr. Pine. At the beginning of March we tapped three maple trees. Two small ones in front of the school and on large one at the back of the playground. The kids made signs asking people to leave our buckets alone and we all headed out to watch Mrs. Tracy drill the holes and set up the buckets. The kids had lots of questions about how it would work and if it would hurt the trees (it doesn't) After the taps were set the sap began flowing immediately. We each got to taste a bit of the sap and it is a little bit sweet. Each afternoon for the next two weeks Mrs. Tracy took a group out to collect the sap. We took guesses about which tree would produce the most and we collected temperature data to see what role that played in production. In class we learned about how and why the trees produce sap and all about syrup production. While we could not go to a sugar house we watch several videos from local sugar houses and Ms. Bascom came in as a guest speaker to share her experience and to show us some of her Grandpas old tapping supplies. She also did an experiment with us to determine the water content of our sap. By the end of our collecting time we had almost 10 gallons of sap! The tree that produced the most. was the small one over by the kindergarten wing. Weather definitely played a role in our production. We had a blizzard and lost a bucket to wind for a couple of days and we had several days of temperatures below freezing when no sap ran. At the end of our collection time Mrs. Tracy took the all sap home and her son boiled it down for us. On Friday we had our pancake breakfast and enjoyed our own syrup! Last Friday we celebrated Chinese New year in our class. We had a day long celebration that ended with a dragon parade. We learned the traditions of Chinese new Year and had a special snack made by our local Chinese chef. Here are some of the things we learned: Chinese New Year lasts 15 days. 2017 is the year of the rooster Chinese parents give red envelops of money to their kids. It is traditional to wear red on Chinese New year. There is a family feast n Chinese new Year's Eve. Dumplings and noodles are traditional foods to eat. On the full moon there is a lantern festival. Today we built and tested boats! The kids were challenged to build a boat that would hold 103 pennies. The pennies represent the number of people who sailed on the Mayflower. Each team of two was given a sheet of tin foil and instructions to build a Mayflower. The teams had access to other supplies like coffee filters, popsicle stick and pipe cleaners. Glue and tape were also available. The first step was to talk to each other and make a design plan. Then constrution began. After the boats were built it was off to the float tank (rubbermaid tub) to test our creations. Each team was given four chances to test and modify their boat. It was intersting to see how different teams approached the task. Some teams made a boat quickly and ran over to test it. They did all four tests and modifed their boat each time. They were successful and got more pennies inthe boat with each test. On the other hand the team whose boat held the most pennies only made one boat, but they worked for 40 minutes on it. We had many different designs and they were all able to hold at least 20 pennies. Four of our boats were able to hold over 103 pennies. At the end of the activity each child recorded their work and helped claen up the flood! The kids were so creative and cooperative with their partners. They are looking forward to more STEM based experiences. A special thank you to our parent volunteer and float tank guide: Jenny Carpenter Well the summer has flown by and now it is time to get ready for school. We have been in our classrooms setting up and getting activities ready for the students. We are so excited to get started. Watching the students renew their friendships and make new ones is one of the best parts of the fall. For us the activities of the first few days always focus on getting to know each other and building a classroom community. Our goal is to develop relationships with and between the children that create a supportive learning environment. We want the kids to know they can count on us and their peers to be supportive of their learning. All kids have things they do well and things they need to work on. Providing an environment where the students feel comfortable as they learn and explore is the goal of all the get to know you activities. We look forward to getting to know the children and their families. It is going to be a great year and we can't wait to get started!
We had the book fair at school this week. I love the Book Fair! The smell of new books, the excitement of seeing what my favorite authors have written this year and the thrill of meeting former students as they shop so we can talk about books. It is one of my favorite weeks of the school year. I remember when the RIF bus used to pull up at my elementary school when I was a kid. I waited all year for the bookmobile to pull in. It is exciting to see my own class as excited for the Book fair as I was!
Our generous PTA gives each child a coupon for a book everyone gets to bring home a new book. I could not wait to take my class down to pick out their books on Tuesday, and by can't wait I mean I went in on Monday and bought a few for myself. Tuesday I went with the class and helped them make their selections. They were so excited to see all the choices and spent a good amount of time choosing the perfect book. It was great to see them choosing wisely based on their interests and their reading level. All that work we have done in class about picking a "just right book" has definitely paid off. When we got back to class they all wanted to read their new books. The interest in books the Book Fair generates is something that cannot be created in class. Choosing a book to own is so much more motivating than picking a book from the classroom library to read. Ask my class what the best part of this week was and they all say, "Getting books at the book fair!" Thanks to the PTA for running this wonderful event! This month we wrote stories about our adventures during this record breaking winter. The kids worked hard planning and writing their narratives and then it was time to type them up. I was getting ready to start typing when one of the kids mentioned that they had finished their Type to Learn program in computer lab. This got me thinking so the next day I offered them the chance to type their own stories on the classroom computers. I was amazed that all but 2 of my first and second graders wanted to type their own stories. I was even more amazed when they were all able to type their own stories independently in less than 30 minutes. Even the 2 who had not originally wanted to try it. They all use their "bear claws" to maintain proper hand position. They are so proud of their work and I am once again amazed at what children can do when you trust them with a challenging task.
Today we headed out into the woods behind our school on our snowshoes. It was a wonderful morning with warm temperatures and snow falling gently off the trees. It was like walking in a snow globe. We hiked through the woods with Mrs. Miller the PE teacher and learned about hiker safety. As we returned to school one little guy said, "Wow, that was a real winter adventure." These are the kind of adventures that make our school special.
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