Will your family be celebrating any holidays over Winter Break- like Christmas, New Years, or Hanukkah? Pick your favorite holiday that you celebrate and write about what your family's traditions are.

(If you don't celebrate any winter holidays, you can write about what you will be doing over Winter Break)

1. Main Street, U.S.A. (an early 20th century Midwest town based on Walt Disney's childhood)
2. Adventureland (featuring jungle themed adventures)
3. Frontierland (illustrating the western frontier)
4. Fantasyland (bringing fantasy into a reality)
5. Tomorrowland (looking into the future)

Our students love Science to Go. This year, we spent two days with Ms. Poaster and debris from local animal nesting sites. Students identified different skulls in the debris from their animal's nesting site/pellets, and calculated the average percentages their animal's diet. Students were enthralled with each aspect of the lab. Again, thank you PTA for purchasing these lessons for us!

Our focus on science this trimester is all about ecosystems. We're learning about food webs and food pyramids. We've even had the chance to build our own self-sustaining ecocolumns (terrariums and aqauriums). Each group has two ecolocums, one control and one experimental ecolocumn. The control ecocolumn started with 3 fish, 1 snail, 2 crickets, and 2 isopods + different land and water plants. The experimental ecolcolumns had the same plants and non-linving materials, but no animals. Recently we began polluting these ecocolumns (each group is either using acid rain (vinegar), fertilizer, or salt). We are currently testing the pH levels and observing the effects of the pollution on our experimental ecocolumns.


Observing the mosquito fish before adding them to their aquariums

The circle of life. One of our dead fish that was later devoured by a scavenger.

Better late than never, right? Here are some images from our fun, classroom Halloween party last month.