Telling Time, Robotics, and Donut Party!

This week, we started our unit on telling time in math. We have been focusing on telling time to the hour and half hour. Please reinforce these skills at home. It gets tricky when it’s to the half hour. We talked about how the hour hand should be halfway to the next hour.  This upcoming week, we will be working more on half hour and eventually we will get into quarter hour and even time to 5 minutes.

We started robotics this week during our computer lab time. The kids were really excited. What kid wouldn’t like to play with Legos and get it to spin by a motor?! The class learned how to assemble the pieces together and then by using the computer with some engineering to control the movement of the motor.

The kids did some cool dragon paintings in art class. I really wanted to hang them up in the classroom but the problem that each teacher faces is the problem of no wall space!! Suzanne and I are really big on hanging up the work of our children. When you walk into our classrooms, you will notice there are student generated work on each wall and every corner of the classroom.

My homeroom class finally earned their donut party this week. Every time I see everyone in the class is doing the right thing and working hard, I will add a link to our class link. When it touches the ground, we earn a party in which the class gets to pick. This past one they voted on a donut party. We’ve had popcorn party and root beer float party in the past. As you can see, Mrs. Skalaban’s class is really close to earning their class party. They are working towards a root beer float party.

 Yuuum! Donuts full of sugar!!!

REMINDER:

Please pack a sack lunch for your child this Wednesday (4-13-16) for our last field trip for the year. It needs to be disposable so we can throw it away after lunch. I’ve been checking the weather and it says it’s supposed to rain. We are crossing our fingers it won’t rain because a lot of the field will be outdoors! Also, have your child wear their orange tie-dye shirt and comfy walking shoes!