March
12, 2012
Room
7 News
Reminders:
This Friday is a teacher workshop day, so there is no school.
The PTA reading incentive sleepover date has changed. Please see the flyer in your Monday
folder. If your child is participating,
they need to have read (and documented) a total of 600 minutes by Monday, March
19th.
Field Trip
Our field trip to Stonewall Farm is the morning of
Thursday, March 22nd. We will
be learning about the maple sugaring process and hopefully taking a
hayride. Please fill out and return the
permission slip that is in today’s Monday folder. We will leave promptly at 9:00 am on the 22nd,
so please be sure your child is here on time that day.
Sleep
Now that
we’ve changed our clocks and the evenings are lighter, please make sure your
child is getting to bed at a reasonable time.
Children this age need 10-12 hours of sleep per night. There were a number of very cranky children
in the classroom last week – which affects not only their learning ability, but
also the ability of the whole class to stay focused and positive. Thanks for your help with this!
Wood and Paper
We wrapped up
our science unit last week by building very creative wood and paper
constructions, most of which have already gone home. Please take time to look through the rest of
your child’s work from this unit in today’s Monday folder. They all did a great job learning about
different properties of wood and paper, recording their observations, and
communicating their knowledge at a whole school meeting.
Over the next
few weeks we will explore nutrition and poison safety, as well as learning
about the maple sugaring process in preparation for our field trip. At the end of March we will begin a unit on
Energy.
Ask Me
1) What did you
like best about the wood and paper unit?
2) What experiment is still going on
in your classroom? (We left a tub of
water with various items in it on a table for several weeks, and are trying to
determine whether the penny, paperclip, tin foil, or piece of redwood turned
the water brown, and what happened to all the water from the tub.)
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