HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Welcome back to school!!! Happy 2013!!! We are glad to be back and in a routine again. The weeks before Christmas were CRAZY, and now maybe things will settle back down. We had Mrs. Johnson's class over this morning and learned about our new morning work for a few days a week. It's called Bedtime Math, and it's a website that sends a passage about a current event, as well as some math problems to go with it. You can even sign up to receive daily emails with the problem of the day. We decided that, since we wouldn't do them at bedtime, we'd change its name to "We-Just-Go-Out-Of-Bed-Time Math!" : ) We did some fun New Year math activities and began a new science unit on organisms. Today, we looked at what we thought it meant to be a living thing vs. what really defines a living thing. We learned that, just because something moves, it doesn't make it a living thing. We also cleared up the misconception that all living things breathe. We're looking forward to learning more in science in the coming days. Happy New Year!!!!!