On December 22nd, we had the privilege of meeting the author, Donna Neumann, who shared her book, I Don't Celebrate Anything! with us over zoom. Mrs. Neumann is also a kindergarten teacher who shared her experiences of feeling left out in school when her classmates would share their excitement about holidays that her family did not celebrate. The students used the character strength of perspective to help them to understand how other's might feel in different circumstances.
To celebrate all we have learned as Word Scientists, the students invited a favorite stuffed animal from home to Word School where they taught their stuffed students about all of their snap words in a variety of ways.
Students enjoyed a Bookstore Celebration to honor their hard work and efforts creating show-and-tell books in their book factories!
Click here to enjoy our classroom authors sharing a show-and-tell book that they wrote!
To culminate our science unit on Forces and Motion, student engineers were charged with the task of following the engineering process to design and create a toy that moves with a push, a pull, or both for the company, Push and Pull, Inc.
Students played catch with a family member at home while describing what happened to the ball when they threw it, caught it, and/or dropped it. After listening to the book, I Fall Down and learning about the force of gravity, students drew and labeled a picture of themselves playing catch including the force of gravity in their science notebooks.
