Math Investigations

During our Math block, the kids have a time for independent practice with a variety of math tasks (computers, math challenge, homework, math facts).  Here a couple kids were working on making some amazing geometric patterns.

Valentine's Day Fun

This was a fun day in the middle of our Kids for Kindness celebration week.  The kids brought in creatively decorated boxes to put their Valentine's in and then at the end of the day we had a class vote on the Most Creative.  

Halloween Festivities

That day we did various Pumpkin Investigations like estimating the number of seeds in a pumpkin and then finding the exact amount,  weighing different sized pumpkins, making predictions about whether the pumpkin would sink or float (this was a fun shocker!) Thank you to the parents that came and helped us out that day!

Snow Days = Early Mid Winter Break!

I hope everyone has been throughly enjoying the snow these past few days.  I know I have :)  Stay warm and safe out there and I will see you all hopefully on Monday.  Here's a few pics I've taken this week.  Enjoy!  ~ Miss Knapp

Welcome Back!

Some of you might be seeing this site for the first time. A few of you have seen it before.  I would like to welcome you ALL back to another year!  This is our classroom website. A place you will be able to come to often.  On the side bar there are many fun and helpful websites for you to use here at school and at home.  Take a few moments to have a look around. :)

Parent Club... Not just for parents

If you haven't heard already Parent Club happens every Thursday evening from 5-7pm in the Challenger Library.  I have thoroughly enjoyed spending these evenings playing fun math games with students and parents.  Come and learn a few new games with your child, enjoy the computer lab or come and get help on homework.  For more information go to Challenger's webpage below.

http://schools.mukilteo.wednet.edu/ch/

The Best Parts of Us... A Writing Project

This was one of the first writing projects of the year.  We read together the book The Best Part of Me by Wendy Ewald and I thought it would be fun to do the same kind of thing she does with her  students in our class.  I had each of the kids pick the part of their body that they were most proud of.  Thinking about these questions... does that part resemble another family member or friend?  Does it help you with sports or in school?  Then they wrote a reflection about that part that they chose and drew an illustration of it.  It was interesting to hear all their thoughts and reasons for choosing what they did :)  Here are a few of them.  Enjoy!