Wild Weather Welcome Back!

So far 2014 has come in with a bang.  Last week, we had our second snow day of the school year and today we had an icy start.  Let's hope Mother Nature is kinder to us for the rest of the winter.

Last week, Mrs. Taylor (or should I say) Dr. Taylor and I (Dr. Wells) teamed up to perform our annual contraction surgery.  We came dressed and ready for surgery.  The "medical" students were excited to witness the event and even more excited to learn they would be performing surgery as well.  One of our patients "Mrs." She Will came in to become She'll.  Dr. Taylor and I carefully removed her 'wi' and stitched her up good as new.

 
The students completed their own surgeries and all of the patients were sent to the recovery room as seen below...

This week we started right back in reading with an essential question.."How can people help out their community?"  We heard a story about one town in Arizona and how they tansformed their drab, crime-ridden community by painting a beautiful mural.  We read a story called "Biblioburro" about a man named Luis who loved reading books.  His problem was that he too many books in his house so he decided to take some of the books to different communities by burro, or donkey.  

In math, we learned about 3-dimensional shapes and parallel lines.  We also learned about symmetry.  As you know, we had another unit test that was sent home already to be signed.  Next week in Unit 6, our focus will be once again on addition and addition/subtraction number stories. 

We started our Solids, Liquids and Gases unit in science.  To begin the unit, we start observing just the solids and discussing their different properties.  In Social Stuides, we played a game of survival.  We imagined that we were dropped into a deserted island and what things we could use for food, clothing or shelter.  

This week in writing, we wrote letters to Mrs. Gansert trying to convince her of changing some things at school.  Some of the suggestions were having a class pet, having more recess, no homework, more homework, etc.  I wonder if she will consider some of the options.

It would not be winter without some winter decor, so I decided to give our door a winter theme.  The students helped out by making the snowflakes (after a snowflake making lesson).  

Have a great weekend!