mystery reader

Today we had a Mystery Reader...Rachel's Dad! Mr. Sloan read Korow, a chimpanzee story illustrated with really great photographs. Do you know what you want to be when you grow up? Well in When You Grow Up a Mama bear gives her little bear some ideas about what he might be when he grows up. This patterned story had us thinking he'd be something special someday, but for sure end up living back at home with Mama. We liked the surprise ending! Thanks, Mr. Sloan!

pyramids

In Math we're studying geometry including 3-D and 2-D shapes. Today we constructed pyramids out of straws! We discovered four kinds of pyramids: triangular pyramid, rectangular pyramid, pentagonal pyramid and hexagonal pyramid. We named the shape of the bases and charted the number of base sides, edges, faces and vertices. We also discovered some interesting patterns and were able to predict number of edges based on number of base sides in addition to number of vertices based on number of faces found.

Here's an idea for at home: use marshmellows and toothpicks to construct cubes, rectangular prisms and pyramids.

flat us

We've read the story Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown this month. We're currently reading Stanley's Christmas Adventure. We have published letters on the computer and most of us have sent off our flat selves to friends and family both near and far - Aurora, Yorkville, Ohio, even India! We're hoping our flat selves go on some fun adventures while gone and return safely by the end of February.

Flat Arathi

Flat Rachel

Flat Sreya

Flat Jake

Flat Nicholas

Flat Laurel (she's inside the envelope!)