'Tis the season

Weekend Newsies

Students continue to work on personal narrative writing by keeping weekly journals.  Students are practicing adding description with: their 5 senses, emotion, dialogue, sound words, hooks and by "showing not telling."

Mystery Objects with our Grandfriends

We observed and hypothesized "Mystery Objects" with our grandfriends.  Some of the objects were familiar to our elders and instigated stories from their youth and others were new to all of us.  

Do you recognize these?

More Newsies

Helping Syria

Laurel Creek created signs and scripts and went around to elementary classrooms asking for support in our Penny Drive an effort to help Syrian Refugee Children.

Second Grade Mathematicians

Geometry, number chains and The Fortune Teller Game

Colder Than Ice Science Lab

Laurel Creek explored temperatures of various water.  

What is the temperature of water?  Water with ice?  Water with ice and salt?

Visiting Strawberry Creek Lodge

We went to visit our neighbors at Strawberry Creek Lodge.  We sang to our elder buddies two of our favorite pieces:  The Circle Game and The Seasons Song.  We then interviewed our buddies about their own childhood.

Geometry

Students continue to explore attributes of different shapes and practice adding strategies simultaneously.  

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Step Up day was great fun for all.  Second graders visited Temescal Creek while first graders invited kindergartners in to Laurel Creek to read a class favorite and do a craft project. 

Making Peace

Students continue to use communication skills to work out disagreements/misunderstandings in a peaceful and constructive way.  Students take turns sharing their perspectives on a situation until they find a way to come to a happy conclusion together.  When this happens they ring a bell that brings over a teacher to check in with both parties.  The last step to a peaceful resolution is for both students to work together to write a "PEACE QUOTE" for our peace wall.

First Grade Mathematicians

Explore 2-D geometric shapes.  Try playing FILL THE HEXAGONS at home, or during academic choice in class.  

Fabulous Friday

Laurel Creek community sews holiday ornaments together.

Remembering Mandela

Big news in Laurel Creek.  Students read a biography about Nelson Mandela, shared news articles,  they talked about what they know, made connections and learned a South African song in Music class.  

What's the MATTER?

Students are exploring the 3 states of matter in Laurel Creek.

Publishing Biographies and Memoirs

Students are making finishing touches to their Biographies and Memoirs.  They editing, rewriting and practicing reading their pieces.  We are getting excited for our Publishing Party on December 20th!

Math Masters Hard at Work

 

Fabulous Friday Festivities

Sewing Seasonal ornaments and sharing Seasonal Favorite books.

Cultural Studies

Examining land and water the world over.  Exploring large land masses called continents.  

Portraits for our Biography Covers

Students learn to break up the human face into realistic proportions.  

Biography Mentor Texts

Students are learning about historical figures through biographies and memoirs we have read as mentor texts for our writing unit.  Here are some that we have read so far.

Mr. Bones says:

 "Have a wonderful weekend and stay warm out there!"

Love,

Nancy and Cate