December 6, 2010

Thank you to everyone who helped to make the Christmas concert a success! The students sounded (and looked) beautiful.

As we prepare for the coming of Jesus in this Advent season, please remember to make this a special time with your child, and emphasize the importance of the birth of Jesus and not just presents. Here in class, we are making a Jesse tree to trace Jesus's ancestry. Every student has a story to share and a symbol to create, and we end each day with one of these stories. We are also beginning each week with a school-wide prayer service.

In science class, we have begun our unit on the weather. Students made barometers (to measure air pressure), wind vanes, and anemometers (to measure wind speed), which they use every day to take measurements. At the end of the month, we'll have a test on the weather, and students will have to use these tools to create a forecast.

We have a test on Tuesday on maps, the weather test next week (either the Thursday or Friday), and a nouns test next week (either Wednesday or Thursday).