Check out our Germs

We've been learning all about germs, washing hands and how to NOT spread germs.  Mr. Mohler, our school nurse, came to talk to us and we read lots of books including one about the Big Bad Wolf who blew down the three pigs houses.  Really, all he wanted was a tissue and he kept sneezing and blowing the houses down.  He wasn't try to hurt them.
This picture is our apple/germ experiment.  We put half the apple in a bag right after it was cut.  The other half was passed around so that everyone can touch and spread germs.  Can you guess which one has the germs?

We started writing narrative stories instead of informational books.  We are writing about stories that really happened to us - somewhere we went or did with friends or family.  We will be writing these kinds of stories through the end of the year.
In math we learned about more and less, longer and shorter.  We compared the length of our names with that of friends and some storybook characters with really long names like SkippyJon Jones and Tikki Tikki Tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo.

Have a great weekend.

What a crazy week

Between the election, one full day of school and two half days, its been a crazy week.

Back to normal next week.

We wrote another informational book in writing.  They are working hard on stretching out words and adding details to their pictures.  We read a lot of informational books, learning about fiction vs nonfiction.  We are finishing up a math unit on comparing the lengths of objects and using words like longer and shorter and we learned how a  number line can help us find one more or one less.  We also finished up our social studies unit on American Symbols (the flag, Statue of Liberty, Mt. Rushmore, bald eagle and the Liberty Bell).  Today, we talked about Veterans Day and what it means to be free.

We also had an assembly with three former Redskins players. They talked to us about teamwork and being respectful even when playing sports.

I'd like to thank everyone for coming in for conferences.  It has been shown that students do better in school when parents are involved.

Have a great weekend.