Arctic Explorers and Winter Carnival

Mapping the Arctic
Rebecca Haynes, one of the science educators from the Montshire Museum, came to our classroom with globes, maps, and NASA apps to help us explore the changing geography of the Arctic.  We  made a tabletop model of a polar ocean complete with sea ice and icebergs.   This was a fun introduction to polar geography and gave us a chance to take the first step to understanding the effects of climate change. 

Exploring the Arctic Ocean and Antarctica on globes and maps.

Viewing NASA videos of the changing ice cap.

Observing a Polar ocean with sea ice and an iceberg!

We had a beautiful day for Winter Carnival fun!

Enjoy your winter break. It looks like the beautiful weather will continue this week, so get outside and enjoy!  Please remember to participate in our Winter Vacation Reading Challenge.

100th Day of School Celebration

February began with a surprise visit from a ground hog!

 We celebrated the day with a variety of activities involving the number 100! Here students worked together to make the numeral 100. 

 

 

Reading together the classic book, Millions of Cats.

100th Day Spirit!

In the morning we read books about numbers with buddies, found spelling words in the letters one hundred day, and played a math game finding sums up to and beyond 100.

                                                             In the afternoon we joined the entire school to participate in 100 minutes of activities.  One favorite was to make Valentine's for Vets.  Your children were quite thoughtful in the messages of thanks they wrote on the valentines.  They were delivered to the VA Hospital in WRJ.

Happy Valentine's Day!