We can all agree the Holiday season at home is a busy time of year! The same goes for in the classroom as well. Schedules are hectic, projects need wrapping up, snow days occur, testing begins, reports cards are worked on, etc.
The title of this post addresses that, though we are still very busy and have much on our schedule, with the Holiday season over, we are mostly returning to normalcy! The month of January, no matter how disjointed, is a crucial time for young learners where new gains are made and new skills are acquired. We are almost halfway through the year, so your students are just about closer to being second graders than kindergarteners anymore, and it shows! This month we will be participating in our second math benchmark of the year, starting another round of reading benchmarks, celebrating reaching the halfway point in the year, and taking part in our space rotations leading up to our next field trip to the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center! We have a lot going on but I know we are ready to take it all on! This week, we had Mrs. Kurtz, our REACH Coordinator, come in for an experiment! She read the class the book Red Sled by Rita Judge and got us all thinking about how sleds move across the snow. We also made the connection to the Winter Olympics and watched a Go-Pro video of a bobsledder racing down a track. The students then had to make their own sleds using different materials and test, not only which material sled down a makeshift hill the fastest, but also test what happened to the time of their sled when weight was added! Stay tuned for what else is to come during this busy month and enjoy some photos below!
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