This week everyone chose an animal to learn about. We will be visiting the computer lab to create All About slide shows/ reports for these animals in the coming weeks. Everyone will be asked to write a sentence telling what their animals look like, what they eat, where they live, and one interesting fact. In addition everyone will make a paper mache model of their animals. We will probably begin this part of the project next week. It might be a little messy-- if you'd like, you could send in a smock (large t-shirt) for your child to use while we are working on this. I'd also happily take any newspaper you might have sitting around!

We began looking at 3-D shapes this week. Students had an opportunity to think of examples of some of these shapes in the world. A disco ball, the Earth, and balls are all spheres. Culverts and water bottles are cylinders. The book shelves in our classroom are examples of triangular prisms.

Next Friday, April 8th, we will be showing a short movie at assembly of some of the activities we have done with Mrs. Hale's class around the Pennies for Peace project. Mr. Hubbard will attempt to lift the bin of pennies. If it is too heavy for him Mrs. Korb will be shaving a W into his head. It should be exciting!