What a Week!

After Tie Dye Tuesday, we continued to have a fabulous week!  

In Math, we finished studying angles, and took our test on them.  We will continue to look at angles through our line design lessons, and we will even get to sew a line design as the year wraps up.

In Science we started to learn about magnetism and electricity. We have done some reading in our science books, and will begin to do some experiments next week.  At the end of this unit, we will even get the chance to make a flashlight.

On Monday we will see Mrs. Silvia of the Haffenreffer Museum for our last visit.  She will help to kick off our study of the Southwest with a presentation on the Hopi.  She has been a wonderful addition to our Kennedy curriculum, and we have learned so much from her! Thanks to the PCC for this awesome opportunity!

We finished reading Charlotte's Web this week!  We enjoyed reading this book using the Reader's Theater model. We all were impressed with Michael and Holly, who really, really brought us into the book with their awesome expression!  The children really loved reading this way.  Though the ending was sad (and Mrs. Merten cried, again) we enjoyed this book, and learned so much!  We even got to watch the movie and compare it to the book. EVERYONE agreed, the book was so much better!

Thank you to Mrs. Williams for recording parts of our chorus show on Thursday!  The puppets are amazing and the performance was fabulous!  We are very lucky here at JFK to have two amazing teachers ~ Mrs. Hess (who made the puppets with the children in art) and Mrs. MacMurray!  Mrs. Mac has a music blog which  you can check out here.

Here are some videos from the show (the puppets singing are Mrs. Merten's favorite).

Our Week(s) In Review

Getting back to school after the holiday break was tough (even for the teacher) but we made it!  We have buckled down and really gotten to work.

In Reading, we did our first Interactive Read Aloud of 2013, Stone Fox. We really loved the book, despite its sad ending.  We enjoyed watching the tv movie, Stone Fox, this week, and completed a comparing/contrasting activity about the book and the movie.  Many of us enjoyed the book more than the movie.

Next week, we plan on beginning our new Interactive Read Aloud, Snow Treasure.

In math we have been learning a lot about fractions.  Some of this has been challenging for the children, but with practice, they will do great!  We have learned many math games to use with fractions.  If your child would like to bring a game home with him/her, that would be a great way to practice.

In Social Studies, we wrapped up our unit on Canada, and had our unit test yesterday.  We will begin our study of the United States in the next few weeks.  In Science we are wrapping up the first part of our weather unit, Weather Maps and Instruments.  We have a quiz scheduled for next Thursday.  The study guide went home today, and has been uploaded.  You can find the link to the right.

This week was a busy one!  

On Wednesday, the Miscoe Hill Skippers jump rope team came to Kennedy School from the Miscoe Hill Middle School in Mendon.  They came to kick off our Jump Rope for Heart program, and to get our students excited about becoming "heart healthy". They were fantastic! We were all impressed by how much practice these students do. They are really dedicated!  Below are a few pictures and  videos of their performance.

Today was our chorus concert!  We were all dressed beautifully!  Below are some pictures, and a sneak peek of one of the songs.

Before the show!

Mae's introduction

And our sneak peek...