Helping Out the Community

This week our essential question in reading was "How can people help out their community?"  We read a story about a community in Arizona that came together to beautify their town.  Their town was being overrun by crime and had become dirty and ugly.  They decided to paint a giant mural with scenes that reflect the history of the town.

  

In math, we continued to practice adding numbers with regrouping.  This week we started adding three and four 2-digit numbers.  The students have been doing a great job remembering the steps!  All of our fact practice has been paying off!

We did a research report this week on polar bears.  We read a couple books about polar bears and recorded the information and then turned it into a polar bear report.

The factory in 2-Wells opened this week.  Our mission was to make a Clown Maze game.  Each student was assigned a job in an assembly line to complete on the game.  This gave them the understanding of how things are produced in a factory.  Just for fun we watched part of the "I Love Lucy" episode when Lucy and Ethel worked on the candy assembly line.

A finished Clown Maze

You should have received in your child's folder the information on the Reach New Heights of Kindness packet.  Our school community will be participating in a random acts of kindess project. Look for the tickets to pass along when your child does a random act of kindness. We want to see how far reaching the kindness can go.

Have a great long weekend.