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.  

Leprechauns are known to cause mischief of all sorts. So before spring break, with our big buddies, we made leprechaun traps using recycled materials. We didn’t catch any leprechauns but we did get some gold coins and leprechaun confetti.

At our provocation table, our students are asked to build a bridge for the animals to cross the river safely. Students were creative in building a bridge for the animals.  

STEM- Marble Maze Task: As a group, work together to build a marble maze using Lego pieces Materials: Marble, Lego base plate, Lego pieces Students worked in small groups of 3 or 4 to create a marble maze out of Lego pieces. After creating a maze, they tried out their own before trying other groups’…

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter who was known as a pioneer of abstract painting. We were inspired to create concentric circles.