Whew! What a crazy week this has been! On Monday Ben presented his Discovery Table about magnets. He performed some experiments to show the classes how magnets work and taught them that items that were magnetic had iron in them.
Tuesday was Vermont Writes Day and our school did a seven minute school wide write about what we saw on the way to school. Tuesday was also Hands On Nature day. This month's lesson was about galls. We learned what a gall is and learned about different types of galls. The larvae of flies, gnats and wasps live in galls until they develop into an adult. When they are ready to emerge from the gull, they dig a pathway to get out. They spend 50 weeks in the gall and only 2 weeks outside the gall before they die! Ask your child what they learned about galls?
Wednesday was the 100th day of school! We had several activities centered around the 100th day! We made posters that you should have seen come home where we practiced counting by 10s. We sang a 100 day song. We drew pictures of how we thought we might look when we turn 100 years old. These will be displayed on a bulletin board in the very near future. We had a visit from "Zero the Hero" who, shall we say, looked a little different this year. Hmmmm...... He read us a story about the importance of the number 0.
We are getting closer to the end of our Penguin unit. Look for invitations next week to see all of our great work that we've done and have worked hard on.
Just a few reminders about our schedule next week. Monday will be Book Fair preview day, Wednesday will be our purchase day. Valentine bags are made so your child may bring in their Valentines on either Monday or Tuesday.
Have a great weekend,
Nancy and Ali
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