Important Dates

February 27 - Yearbook orders due
March 2 - Dr. Seuss Day
March 4 - Spring pictures
March 16-27 - PSSA testing
March 20 - Biography book report due

It is hard to believe that February is almost over and March is right around the corner. The school year just seems to be flying by. We have been very busy in Room 202. On Friday, we enjoyed some time with our kindergarten buddies. All the children had fun playing board games with their buddies. Pictured here are Brooke and Makena with their buddies. In Social Studies we are working on the Northeast region. We have been studying the immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, and the students are finding this very interesting. We are also enjoying a novel called Dear Levi. Through this book, the class is getting a true understanding of the hardships of traveling west in a wagon train.

Snow, snow, and more snow!

I hope everyone is enjoying all this snow. With all the snowy weather outside, take some time and curl up with a good book. Book reports are due January 30th, and the children really seem to be enjoying their books. We are also reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing during our novel time. Everyone is enjoying the hilarious antics of three year old Fudge. Fudge is providing us with many laughs such as when he dumped his food over his head at the restaurant while saying, "Eat it or wear it." Be sure to ask your child what else Fudge is up to.

Tomorrow we will be starting the regions of the United States in Social Studies. We are beginning with the southeast region. We sure could use a bit of their sunshine and warmer weather.

Get out and enjoy the snow. The possiblities are endless: snow angels, sled riding, ice skating, snowball fights, ect...

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Christmas is almost here and we are very busy with lots of activities. Today we made gingerbread glyphs with our kindergarten buddies. The gingerbread man tells all about us such as how many brothers and sisters, when our birthday is, and what our hobbies are.

Pictured here are Gavin and Eric with their gingerbread glyphs.

We also finished reading The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. It is a hilarious story about the awful Herdman children who learn the true meaning of Christmas. We had a lot of laughs in this book. We particularly enjoyed when Claude Herdman took his crazy one-eyed cat to show and tell. Monday brings the much anticipated movie day and Tuesday will be the annual Christmas assembly. Merry Christmas!

Open House and Conference Day

Open House is on Thursday, November 6th from 6:30 - 7:30. I hope you will be able to stop in and visit your child's classroom and see what we have been busy working on. Conference day is scheduled for Friday, November 14th. Please return your child's conference paper so that I can begin scheduling conferences.

Native American Projects

We just finished up a unit in Social Studies on the Native Americans in Pennsylvania.
Students worked in groups and researched a Native American tribe in Pennsylvania. The main tribes to live in PA were the Lenape and the Susquehannock. The Erie, Seneca, and Shawnee also lived in PA. The students did a very nice job creating their informative posters. Pictured here are Maddie, Reese, and Misty with their poster on the Erie Indians.

Animal Classification

In our animal unit, we have been classifying the animal kingdom. Today in Science the students did a classification activity. They had to first classify animals as either a vertebrate or an invertebrate. Then they had to classify all the vertebrates as a mammal, bird, reptile, fish, or amphibian. They had to classify the invertebrates as arthopods, mollusks, echinoderms, or ringed worms. Pictured here are Casey and Noah.