January 18 - 21

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• 100th day of school is currently around February 9th-ish. On that day we will be celebrating our first 100 days of school! We will be doing 100 projects. As the day gets closer, I will send out more on this.

• Monday, February 14th: Valentine's Day Party! I will be sending home a list of classmate names for Valentines. If you are unable to send in Valentines, I will have extras in the classroom. If you let me know ahead of time, I can pick out ones that your child would like to give.

• Week of February 14th: Stargazing night! As we get closer we will pick a night based on the weather and clear skies. To go along with our solar system unit will we be gazing at the stars and moon through telescopes and enjoying hot chocolate to warm up.

• February 21-25: February Vacation

ANNOUNCEMENTS

This week we continued learning about the solar system and nonfiction text features. We spent time being book detectives and looking for interesting ways information was organized or presented. We have been learning about these features: table of contents, bold print, headers, diagrams, labels, captions, index, and glossary.

This week we moved on from learning about the sun, to learning about the planet closest to our sun, Mercury! We started by activating our prior knowledge on what we already knew. We then did some research on Mercury and started to take notes in our solar system research books.

One of the facts we learned was that Mercury does not have an atmosphere. This means that meteoroids and comets hit the surface and create many craters. We tested this out ourselves and turned a smooth surface (flour) into one filled with craters, created by our meteoroids (raisons and cranberries).

I didn't do so well with photos this week, but here is one of a math group and one of inside recess crafting!