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  • We wonder: “Why do leaves change colors?” “I know! They fall down to hibernate for the winter!” “They change color [...]

    Why do leaves fall off trees?

    November 2, 2015
  • We used blocks and the document camera to talk about rectangles and triangles. Someone noticed that one of the triangles had two long sides and [...]

    Math Projects: Blocks

    November 5, 2013
  • We are working on making math projects. We first started by asking, “What IS math?” “Math is a hard thing you do when get [...]

    Math Projects: October

    October 18, 2013
  • We started reading The Dream Fairies by Kelly Ann Smee. Its about the fairies who are in charge of your dreams. Then we went out in the forest to [...]

    All About Fairies

    May 19, 2013
  • Today we started working with Polydrons. Here is the man who sells toys to teachers and schools telling about how to work with polydrons.   [...]

    Bucky Balls in Space!

    May 3, 2013
  • We started talking about the Earth when Earth Day was near. We read The Lorax and put up posters of animals, talked about caring for the earth, [...]

    The Earth

    May 3, 2013
  • Wonderopolis Dive into Wonderopolis here!

    Wonderopolis

    April 11, 2013
  • We use the Think Math! program and workbooks to practice and build our math skills. Some days we have “Game Day” or work to design [...]

    PBL Math

    February 4, 2013
  • The short story of Thanksgiving is about being thankful. It’s a time to be together with our families and our friends. But there is a long [...]

    The Long Story of US Thanksgiving

    November 19, 2012
  • Today is Election Day in the USA. We vote to decide who is the President of the USA. The two main people are Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. They [...]

    Voting in the USA

    November 6, 2012
  • Wow! We have not had school for eleven days! Our pattern is usually 5 days school, 2 days no school, 5 days school, 2 days no school. But now we [...]

    Sandy

    November 4, 2012
  • Today we went outside and took some photographs of our garden. Earlier in the week, we read a book about “How Pumpkins Grow.” Can you [...]

    “Nature” or “Not Nature” ?

    September 21, 2012
  • Tic-Tac-Toe! 3 in a row! You be X and I’ll be O!

    Tic Tac Toe

    September 12, 2012
  • This summer, Ms Echternacht went to Robot Camp with her teacher friends. We learned how to make robots dance! See how we are working to make this [...]

    Robot Camp

    August 24, 2012
  • Now that you can fold a few things, the next step is to teach others how to fold origami! How to Fold a Dog: How to Fold a Cup: And after you [...]

    Origami 3

    May 15, 2012

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