This week's news by Ms. R (we ran out of time this week!)
As you can see in the photo, my son Max came in to connect and set up the Smartboard computer in our class. We are the first classroom to have this technology and we are slowly learning how we can use it in our class. We used it to learn how to make the "Iggy's Holiday Dance" video, create notes for our science experiment and to listen and learn a new song (When You Wish Upon A Star) from the movie of the old Italian folktale "Pinocchio", written over 100 years ago by Carlo Collodi (Nicole did her research project on this famous Italian).
In math we are learning about 3D (three dimensional) geometric solids.
Eve brought in a DVD with a Pink Panther cartoon called "Pink da Vinci" where he gets in trouble for repainting the smile on the Mona Lisa. The class then wrote an opinion story about the cartoon.
In science we continued to learn about the scientific method for conducting experiments. The photo shows "silly putty" that the students made using glue, water and borax. They wrote about their theories on how two liquids mixed together actually made a solid (or more accurately, a semi-solid).
This week and next we are reviewing all the word wall words we studied so far this year. One way we reviewed these words was to create word search puzzles for other students to solve.
The children created snowflakes on the computer at www.addictinggames.com/createasnowflake.html.
On Friday afternoon, the children snuggled with their pillows to watch the holiday movie "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer".
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