Happy Friday!

We have had a wonderful week back from Spring Break!  So many fun things have happened.  I have uploaded the newsletter to the blog - make sure to read through it.  :)  There is an additional field trip scheduled, and information about what we are doing in reading, writing & math!

Science
Before we left for Spring Break, we designed an experiment to test whether or not plants need sun, water and soil to grow.  We talked about the importance of having a control (plant that we do not change anything) and on the other plants that we could only change one variable.  Yesterday we actually set up our experiment!! Miss Sullivan & Miss Steward lead us as we put together our experiment.

The kiddos had a lot of fun getting a little "dirty" while they planted.  Each group was responsible for one of the variable plants.  We will keep observing them each week to see how much the plants change.  Our hypothesis is that the plants with no soil, no light, extra water and no water will die.

All our flowers (except the one with no light - it's in the closet).

Mother's Day Singers
Yesterday we enjoyed listening to the Mother's Day Singers.  We learned some sign language to the song "The More We Get Together" and they even sang a song from Aladdin!!

Maker's Space

Today we had Maker's Space.  The kiddos really enjoyed building with K'Nex.  Some kiddos used the directions to make some items and others used their imaginations!!  Here are some pictures from today!!

Fractions

Today we started learning about fractions.  The kiddos enjoyed making fractions by cutting brownies in halves, thirds and fourths.  We then compared the fraction pieces to determine which fraction is smallest and which fraction is the biggest.  Even though 1/4 has a denominator (a new vocabulary word) of 4 and 4 is a big number the kiddos learned that it means that you have to share your brownie with 4 people and the brownie pieces are actually smaller than 1/2.

We also learned when you are talking about fractions you don't say I partitioned the brownie into "twos" instead you say halves.  Here is a video of the kids saying the fractions that we learned today! :)

MyOn Reading

We now have on display the student that has read the most on MyOn in each grade in our Media Center hallway.  Josselyn was the "Super Reader" for 2nd Grade for the month of March by logging the most hours on MyOn.  Congratulations Josselyn!!!  Please remember that your child can use MyOn to read books at home and is a wonderful way to drastically expand your home library. 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend! :)