I hope the kids are enjoying the start of their extra-long weekend! I'm at school today but hope to get outside tomorrow and go for a hike!
We packed a lot of learning into our short week! Our first STEM experiment was a success! I encouraged the kids to tell you all about it. The colorful results of our work were sent home in Eagle News on Thursday. We're working on answering our Big Question, "Why DO leaves change color?", by doing some chromatography experiments. This Wednesday, we'll be using prisms to learn about how colors can be separated, just like with our coffee filter experiment. :)
Thank you for helping us with our homework! I have had several children share that they practiced skip counting, worked on place value, and did some reading! Awesome!
Mr. Chris Howell was our first Wednesday Mystery Reader! He shared some books with us and told us about his job as Assistant Superintendent here in RSU #14. I wonder who next week's surprise reader will be...? ;)
Our first Project Day will be the morning of Halloween, October 31st. I haven't attached a time because we have a guest coming from Windham PD to talk about Halloween Safety, and he is checking his schedule for the day. I will let you know ASAP! The November Project Day will be on Tuesday the 20th from 2 to 2:40 PM. To help out on Project Days, please be sure to have completed and submitted a Volunteer Form two weeks prior to the event. You can find the form on the WPS page. Please also let me know if you are planning to come so I can plan groups/etc. Thank you so much!
I attached the Class Directory to the email that was sent earlier today. Please do not share families' contact information without their permission. Thanks! Just as a reminder, school policy does not allow us to have invitations distributed at school-please use the contact list. Also, if your contact information is not correct, please let me know ASAP so that I can fix it and resend the document. Thanks!
We love Estimating on Wednesdays!
Thank you for all you do to help us! :) Have a great rest-of-the-weekend!
Becca
