Special story

On Friday we celebrated Isa's birthday with a couple of special stories: The Day the Crayons Quit and the funny sequel, The Day the Crayons Came Home.  Isa did a great job reading with her dad; the class was captivated!

Electron lesson

On Friday, Zadie's mom, Stephanie, came to the classroom to give a talk and demonstration about electrons and how they make energy.  We learned that lemons and limes make good conductors for energy.  The students made very thoughtful hypotheses about which other fruits would do the same and why.  Stephanie told us at the beginning that scientists have to be very patient because their experiments don't always go as planned.  Sure enough, Stephanie had to make adjustments to her original plan as the demonstration progressed!

See, Think, Wonder

As we delve deeper into our study of Japan, the students had a chance to investigate some artifacts and as a group, "see, think and wonder" about them.  The biggest mystery was solved a few days later when we read a book called Kamishibai Man and learned that what many of us thought was a fancy picture frame or puppet theater was a kamishibai stage. Ask your child about kamishibai.  

On Friday we met with Ms. Ferola's third graders, who have just finished their non-fiction writing project.  We have just begun ours and found much inspiration in seeing their work and hearing about the process.