As part of our Poetry wrap-up, students were asked to write a Winter Haiku… Enjoy!! Winter Olympics Mens’ Snowboarding and Hockey Playing in the cold ~Ben Snowshoveling and Snowball fights and snowmobiles Winter is awesome ~Christopher I like vacation So…
Haiti ShelterBox Book Sale
The Family Pod has been working hard to organize a fundraiser to benefit the people of Haiti. We are collecting gently used books to sell here at school. The books, priced between 25 and 50 cents, will be on sale…
Guest Blogger
Kendyl has been asking me for permission to post on our blog – so now she has her own page. She’s already asking me if any students have left comments for her….. So, hurry up and comment!!! Click on Kendyl’s…
Arts Alive!
Arts Alive On the recent field trip to the Cotuit Center for the Arts, students saw some wonderful works from over 50 Cape Cod artists. In our Arts Alive presentation, we learned about one of those artists—Bill Evaul, whose white-line…
Wallwishers…
If you could make a wish for someone else in your life, or in the world, what would it be??? Visit our Wallwisher site and leave a sticky note for everyone to read. The link to this site is also…
Well, We Wanted to Name the Planets….
……..and now we’ve named them all….. Today in class, we discovered two methods for remembering the planets. We decided that we would include Pluto in our memorization because even though Pluto is no longer a planet, it is still an…
Oreo Moon Phases
Today was fun!!!! Each student was given 4 Oreo cookies with the instructions to use their science notes and create a model of the Moon’s phases. Though at first, they all looked to me for “how” to do it —…
Starry, Starry Night
We had another SUPER Arts Alive! session with Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Hebner – the students learned all about Vincent Van Gogh! We watched the following videos: Starry, Starry Night Van Gogh Self Portraits Classical Tribute Observed the following piece…
When Fall Comes To New England
Just before the Thanksgiving break, we spent time studying the words to Cheryl Wheeler’s song “When Fall Comes To New England”. The kids did not know at that point that we were studying lyrics to a song. We talked about…
Cranberry Celebration
Wow – what a great day! We had 6 groups, 6 stations and it took all day to make our way through them. We took a break in the middle of the day to meet as an entire grade level. …