Reading is a favorite part of our school day.  I'm so proud of our readers! Our book boxes have nonfiction and fiction books.  

 

Each day we practice mindfulness techniques after lunch.  On Thursdays, we practice recognizing, utilizing and being responsive to our breath.  This activity, called star breathing is a recent skill.

 

  

Thank you to Mrs. Knoth and Mrs. Almassahlki for teaching us about animals in winter, insulation, and survival.  We experienced a fun science experiment recording temperatures of hot water (140 degrees), creating an insulator and placing the insulated water in the snow, then recording the temperatures at the end of the lesson.  Our students connected our math work of comparing problems, finding the difference and using a variety of strategies to do so in this lesson!  

 


  Thank you for sending in the puzzles of the United States!  It's great to work with many classmates putting them together and making observations about the different types of maps, features of maps and reading maps carefully.  

Thank you for bringing in the Flat Stanley activity that was sent to your house.  We look forward to getting some of the Flat Stanley's back from our letters sent to our contacts across the United States in the coming weeks.  Our map is set up in the hallway for us to label with states and place our Flat Stanley's we receive.  

Some things to ask your child about:

Reading notebooks

Spaghetti squash and garlic from Miss Meg in Farm to School

Preparing a nonfiction writing piece to publish

Olympics inside when it was too cold to ski

Coding in the library with Mrs. Springer

Word Study

**I invite you to send in the January kindness calendar to share this week.  We will positively share moments of kindness we've done throughout the month.  We are hopeful to share how kindness can spread and the joy it brings. There is no pressure for the calendar to be complete or filled in.  We will discuss our acts of kindness regardless.  

Thank you for all you do,

Jen Belisle