Happy March... Back to Reality/Routine!

Today we got back to our routines... it felt like September for some of us after being out of routine for a few weeks getting ready for our Celebration of Learning.

Highlights from our learning today:

• in science, we learned about animals that adapt to survive extreme temperatures (Jaxon)
• in social studies, we finished learning about the music culture in the arctic including drums made out of seal skin and music from their throats (Zaeem)
• in math, we learned about 2-D and 3-D shapes (Chasity) including some new ones like trapezoid (Marek) and rhombus (Drayden)
• in literacy blocks we had new rotations including a word/sentence builder (Rana)
• we are starting a new read-aloud Illustrator's Notebook called "Toys Go Out". Today we made predictions about what the book will be about

Heads Up! Building Project:
We're going to be building again... please send in the following *clean* materials:

• cotton balls
• cotton fabric
• bubble wrap
• styrofoam (trays, cups, or S-package-peanuts in a bag... NOT meat trays unless they're brand new)
  
• tinfoil
• yogurt/plastic containers - LARGE SIZE ONLY please 
• plastic cups
• coffee cans
• newspaper