After reading the story The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle, the students imagined what would happen if their own tiny seeds grew into giant plants. Just like the tiny seed in the story, each seed overcame challenges and blossomed into something amazing. Take a look at the enormous plants our students created!  

Division 16 is Blooming with Kindness We are learning how to be kind to others. What small acts of kindness are you doing?

In Math, we started a unit on measurement. We will learn how to measure length, width, height, weight, and volume. The students will learn about direct comparative measurement (i.e. compare two items to see which one is longer than, shorter than, equals to) and using nonstandard uniform items to measure (i.e. using unifix cubes to…

Happy Mother’s Day! Hope you had a wonderful weekend! To the motherly figures in your kid’s life… thank you for all that you do to help them blossom to wonderful beings. They are better with you in their lives!

Every year, Earth Day is on April 22. It is a day to promote awareness of taking care of our environment. In class, we have been learning different ways to take care of our planet. We brainstormed some ways of taking care of the Earth: – reduce – reuse – recycle – compost – use…

Caution: Do not touch! We may bite! With our big buddies, we created 3D Math monsters out of recycled materials. The students drew a rough draft of their monsters before making their visions come to life! Come take a look in the hallway outside our classroom. They look scary and amazing!   

Division 16 is learning about our community- the people and places that belong. Yesterday we went to Me-n-Eds’s Pizza Parlors restaurant to learn how pizza is made. On our way to the restaurant, we saw many places in our community like the bottle depot and car shop. At the restaurant, the students got to check…

Community Helpers Division 16 is learning about community helpers and places. People who work to help others in their community are called community helpers. As a class, we brainstormed some community helpers: Teachers, cooks, mechanics, construction workers, doctors, firefighter, paramedics, nurses, grocers, coaches, engineers, police officers, mail carriers, and boat drivers. Next week is our…

March 27 was National Scribble Day. I read the class the story, I’m NOT just a Scribble by Dianne Alber. It is a story about a scribble who was left out because he was different and didn’t look like everyone else. Scribble teaches other drawings to accept each other for who they are and in…

Spring is here! At school, we learned about Easter. In Art, we drew a rabbit directed drawing. The Easter Bunny also visited us last Thursday and left us lots of yummy chocolate eggs.