T.E.A.M.

Our new Unit of Inquiry has led us to reflect on our roles within a group and how our actions connect to the outcome.  The importance of making a plan and assigning responsibilities were found to be quite helpful.  Working with our friends has now been even more fun.  The group discussions, negotiations and compromises are wonderful!   Such principled, communicating, caring, thinkers!  *Truly living the learner profile

Lost Puppies is a fun cooperative board game.  We have to work together
to bring all the dogs home!  

We work as teams to discover all the ways to break
apart a number (6-10)

Emerson created a great board game for his March Math
Project that was a perfect fit for the unit as well!

First in Math is even more fun when we work togehter!

Acting our songs and stories in Mandarin is another
way we are using cooperation!

The characters in our Problem solving notebook showed cooperation too!

Our Trip to the Art Museum

We used our trip to focus on how the artists tell a story with their work.  Uncovering the story in each picture was really interesting.  Our Explorers were amazing with their deep thinking and thoughtful questions. 

Thank you Mystery Readers!!!

How We Organize Ourselves

We began our 5th Unit of Inquiry, How We Organize Ourselves, over the last two weeks.  Through this unit we will be investigating shared responsibilities of a group and how they may ease the achievement of a common goal.  This sure is a fancy way to say that we will be looking at TEAMWORK, COOPERATION, CONFLICT, COMPROMISE and NEGOTIATION.  Already we have found that being a part of a community is a big responsibility!

We were surprised to see an amazing pipe band that came to visit on St. Patrick's Day.  Talk about cooperation and teamwork!  Everyone had to do their part to sound as wonderful  as they did.

 Look at all those excited faces as they listened!!

Later in the day Mrs. Snyder's class used cooperation skills to create giant leprechauns!  Our Explorers were great communicators and very open-minded as they created a plan to get their project done.  

The teamwork continues!

Numbers Partner Adding

Cooperation Board Game-Hoot Owl Hoot!

Partner Painting

Puzzle Fun as a Team

Teamwork was definitely used to make a pet store in Mrs. Humphrey and Mrs. Tayor's class.  Such thinkers to come up with and organize this super idea!
















Thank You, Thank You, Thank You Mystery Readers!!!

Despite the cold weather, spring arrived this week.  YAY!! Take a look at this thrilling journal entry about why we should like spring.  It certainly got us all excited about the wonderful changes that we can look forward to!

Upcoming Events:
Art Museum Field Trip-Thursday

Scientific Study and Testing

Creative, Curious, Inquiring Thinkers!

As we learn new things, we record it. 

Oh do we have a lot to share!  Our Unit of Inquiry, How the World Works, has wrapped up and it has taken us on quite an exciting journey of properties.  We have looked closely at what items are, what they are made of, how we can describe them, how they work and whether or not we can change an object.  Our senses proved valuable tools for our inquires!  

Focusing our Inquiries: Materials, Length, Mass, Function, Change:

We investigated living things too!  WORMS

Materials are used for different purposes. 

How are the balls alike? Different?

Not all nests are the same.  Why is that?

Sound Investigation

Our study led us to discover that the materials of objects change its sound.  If you happen to walk by a kindergarten room over the last two weeks, you may have wondered what we were up to.  It was loud and very exciting! Scientist must test their ideas, so we did just that.

We started our investigations with a Listening Walk around the school.  My are there a lot of interesting sounds at CIS!

Vibration-we can explore it with our ears and our eyes!

Water carries sound too!

Studying how sound travels

Watching vibrations caused by sound

 TCTS

We read a story called The Tin Can Telephone System (TCTS).  Which furthered our wonders  even more.  Do all materials carry sound the same way?  What materials could we use to make our own phone?  Why does it work sometime and not all the time?  

Trial and error, recording and making a lot of changes…such creative thinkers!

Pre-Study

To check our understanding of sound, each class wrote a poem before the study of and then at the end.  It was every exciting to hear the reflections of what was learned.

Post-Study

February Math Projects

Our creativity continued with the presentation of February's math projects.  We absolutely loved everyone's special books.  

Alta's Action Continued:

Alta's action of collecting 100 cans of food as her 100 Day Project ended with making a very special, welcomed delivery to the CLE FoodBank.  Thank you Alta for showing such tremendous compassion for others.   

Thank you Mystery Readers!!

Upcoming Events:
3/21-Student-led Conferences
3/27-Field Trip to the Art Museum