Gingerbread Day!

We have been working with our 4th grade partners on a mini unit on gingerbread. The first time we met for this project we read a Let's Find Out with them on gingerbread and we did a sequencing story for how to make gingerbread cookies.  The next time we created gingerbread glyphs and read gingerbread stories with them. We learned that we all enjoyed these gingerbread stories and are excited to participate in our own gingerbread day! Today we had our Gingerbread day and Mrs. Visocchi's 4th graders joined us for the morning. We made gingerbread cookies, gingerbread houses, foam gingerbread people, a gingerbread game, we played roll a gingerbread, colored a gingerbread baby and read a few more gingerbread stories! We ended our time together with snack time and the Frosty the Snowman video. 

It was an awesome morning and all of these gingerbread goodies along with many things created during the month of December went home today with the students in their giant snow people goody bags! We hope you enjoy going through this bag of treasures. 

Science Experiments with Mr. Musselman

On Tuesday, Mr. Musselman form the Burlington Science Center came to our class and shared some science experiments with us. We had 4 stations of science exploration! Mr. Musselman helped us with an electricity station. We showed our holiday spirit, made closed circuits and tested materials against the electrical owl to see which items conducted electricity (metal items), and which items were insulators and the conductors lit up the owls eyes and the insulators did not.

Mrs. Kearney lead the instant snow experiment, which was a class favorite. The students added water  to some magic powder with an eye dropper and watched it grow and expand.

Mrs. Peckham our parent helper helped the students be geologists and compared different rocks and minerals.

Mrs. Parnell and Mr. Donoff helped the students with the Kibo coding robots. Many students were successful implementing a code and then were able to watch Kibo demonstrate the code they created.

It was a busy, fun and engaging morning! Thank you Mr. Musselman for spending the morning with us.