March Days!!!!

Hooray- the sunshine has finally found us in northeast Iowa.  It is great to have warm days to go out and play at recess.  Our playground is rather muddy and sloppy.... so please continue to send boots (or extra old shoes) to school.  It helps keep our classroom, hallways, and kids cleaner when the kids wear boots for recess. Also remind your student to dress for the weather.  Our morning recess is at 10 AM and it is often between 30-40 degrees yet.  Thanks for your help!

Here are a few photos from the last few weeks....

5th graders shared their "Book in a Bottle" projects with us.

We awarded the Gumball Machine for our fist classmate to master all 

of their multiplication facts on timed tests.  A second gumball machine will
be awarded at the end of the year.  Student names will be entered in the drawing
as they master their 0-10 multiplication facts as part of our "Gumball Challenge."

Students show off their "Wonder Bubble" projects right before taking them home.

They are working hard on their next research topic of choice during our "I wonder..." time.

Two of our students earned hats as part of our "Reading Rally" for 

Time for Kids subscriptions.

In math we are starting a unit on geometry.  We are making connections between
our coding work and angles and rotations.  In math centers, students have
been working coding our cup stack challenges. 

First in Math is a favorite independent math website to work on.

In math we have been studying the properties of triangles.  Students

worked on making different types of triangles using straws and pipe cleaners.