Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but look at what they can do when they stick together...snowman!

Well, hello there! I sure hope you were all able to get outside yesterday. It was BEAUTIFUL!!! Beau, Zach and I spent the day sledding down the driveway, sledding down the HUGE hills behind our house, and riding behind and on the 4 wheelers in the snow. Poor Em was inside sick! :0( She did make it outside for some fresh air long enough to make a fun snowman though. We were hoping for another day just like it today, but Mother Nature just wouldn't cooperate two days in a row. So, we are back to Brrrrr! I sure hope Gwen and Espen enjoyed skiing yesterday. I bet today's races are a little more cold and slick!



Speaking of Gwen...she was our star of the week last week. She brought her bunny, Midnight to share with us. What a fun pet. He wanted to get down and jump around! The kids loved getting to pet him. So soft!!! Gwen also shared that she loves to knit and write stories. What a great kiddo! Thanks for sharing with us Gwen, and thanks dad for bringing in the bunny!



In S.S. we began our tour of some points of interest found in the SE region. We stopped at Jamestown. The kids played a fun board game that allowed them to realize just how hard colony life was, and by hard I mean hard to stay alive. They learned about starvation and malaria. As you can see many of the kids did not survive the game, where some of them did. We concluded that colonists pretty much had a 50/50 chance of making it in the new world before they learned how to plant food and sell the cash crop of tobacco back to England. We will continue the tour next week. Kids will have the chance to try to determine what kind of music they are hearing in this area by listening for certain instruments. They were already tapping their toes and dancing in their seats when I gave them a sample last Friday. Should be fun!



Also this week...

Math: We will wrap up customary measurement conversions. We will also make our game boards for our inquiry projects in Lead 21 using all the ruler measurement we learned last week. Kids now know how to measure to the whole inch, half inch, forth inch, and eighth inch.

Lead 21: We will continue to work on making connections and learning more about the SE region. Students will also continue to read their  fictional stories on their own in class.

Language: We will work more on making possessive nouns by adding an 's or s'.

Spelling: Words that change a final y to an i before adding a suffix.

Science: We will learn about two more simple machines that will help us in our PLTW studies.

MT History: State symbols.

Fly Time: Martin Luther King, Ruby Bridges, and Rosa Parks.

I think that about covers it. Have a great Sunday, and I will see all the kiddos tomorrow morning.
Mrs. Grewell