Grateful Heart

Dear Parents,

I wanted to take a moment and thank you all for your generosity at Christmas!  I love the gift cards to my favorite places, as well as all the other wonderful gifts you all gave me. Wow! I am one lucky teacher!  You are all so generous and made me feel very special. I sure am grateful to have a job where I love coming to work every day. Having supportive parents is an awesome bonus. You are all so kind and deeply touched my heart. Thanks again!

Love,

Mrs. Peterson :)

Unit 16 Spelling Words

1. air 

2. wear

3. chair 

4. bare 

5. pear 

6. stairs 

7. bear 

8. stare 

9. hair

10. care 

11. pair 

12. share 

13. fair 

14. where 

15. buy 

16. could 

17. nightmare 

18. compare

Christmas Program

What a joy it was to watch these amazing kiddos sing their Christmas songs today. They did fabulous and looked precious!

The Me I Want To Be

When we grow up, we want to be....

Unit 14 Spelling

Test on Friday, December 12th

Vowel + /r/

1. horse
2. mark
3. ear
4. storm
5. smart
6. acorn
7. fear
8. artist
9. forest
10. March
11. clear
12. north
13. heart
14. fourth
15. year
16. story
17. partner
18. fortune

Marshmallow STEM Challenge

December Events

Thursday, December 4:  8:30 PTA Meeting and Barnes and Noble Night from 4:00-8:00

Tuesday, December 9:  Holiday Lunch for kids who have HOT lunch this day.
Menu:   Turkey Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Stuffing, Green Beans w/Cranberries, Dinner Roll, Baby Carrots, Mango w/Blueberries, Cranberry Sauce, and Milk

Friday, December 19:  1st-3rd Grade Holiday Music Program at 10:00 and 1:30 

Unit 13 Spelling Words

1. joy

2. point 

3. voice 

4. join 

5. oil

6. coin 

7. noise 

8. spoil 

9. toy

10. joint 

11. boy 

12. soil 

13. choice 

14. boil 

15. come 

16. are 

17. poison 

18. destroy

Unit 11 Spelling Words

1. talk
2. cross 
3. awful
4. almost 
5. law
6. cloth 
7. cost
8. crawl 
9. chalk
10. also
11. raw
12. salt
13. wall
14. lawn
15. soft
16. small
17. often
18. strawberry 

Inquiry Projects

We presented our Unit 2 Inquiry Projects this week! The students did a terrific job teaching their classmates all about Drones, Roller Coasters, and how TVs and Computers have evolved and changed over time. Here are two of the groups posters...

STEM Challenge Fun!

We completed our second STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) challenge yesterday! What a fun time! Students were challenged to create a structure (using only 20 dot candies and toothpicks) that was tall AND could hold the weight of a textbook. Only a few pairs succeeded :)  It really got us talking and thinking about the Scientific Design Process - Ask, Explore, Model, Evaluate, and Explain.