This week was bittersweet. We are so excited for Mrs. Atkin and her husband as we await the arrival of their baby girl but we will miss her very much! We are excited to welcome Miss Kesselring to our classroom! She has been getting to know the students the past few days and is really excited to be with us during Mrs. Atkin's maternity leave.
This busy week consisted of discussing our new study, exploring new workstations, and visiting the science fair. As suspected some of the students were very interested in studying reptiles but a lot of students suggested animals such as rhinos, elephants, sea urchins, and sharks. We spent some time talking and thought that a study on Africa would be a good compromise. Africa has all sorts of reptiles, safari animals, and is touched by oceans. This will be a huge study and we have even talked about studying the people of Africa and how they live.
Some students have started to look at books about African animals.
Some of the math and literacy workstations that the students have started exploring are subtraction, measurement, matching teen numbers, addition, graphing 3-D shapes, retelling, letter sound puzzles, iPad sight words, and building with sight words.
The students were able to preview the Science Fair on Thursday before the families were invited to attend that evening. The students had a BLAST exploring all of the activities at the Science Fair. Pictured below are a few of the activities the students chose to explore.
Have a wonderful week!
Miss Jessica Hannigan
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