Thanks for a great year!

Thank you to all of my students and their families for a great school year.  Your children have worked so hard and grown so much.  Your support and encouragement have meant so much to me and to your children as well.  Enjoy the summer months!  See you in September!

Day at the Beach

A little peek into our day at the beach...

Thank you to all of the moms, dads, grandparents, and siblings that joined us at the 

beach for a great day.  Your help supervising and passing out lunch was greatly 

appreciated and your company and continued support throughout this year

has made such a difference in your child's education.

Thanks to Stop 26 for opening early for us too!!!

Making Rosaries

Thank you Mrs. Bellemore!!

Mrs. Bellemore is such a lovely lady, who comes in once a month 

to pray the rosary with us.  Since grade 2 is a special year of sacraments

Mrs. Bellemore comes in to make rosaries with the students in grade 2.  

The rosaries will be blessed by Father Daniel and then they will be 

sent home with your child.

Chapter Book Challenge

After working so hard on their Chapter Book Challenge, they finally got to 

share their work with their friends.

Good Bye Miss Grace

Thanks Miss Grace!

Thank you so much for all of your help in our classroom this year!!!

We had a great morning saying Good Bye to Miss Grace, our 

coop student from St. Joseph's High School.  She organized all sorts of 

fun games inside and outside.  Everyone had a great time!

Simple Machines

As part of our unit on simple machines, the students are participating 

in activity centers with a small group.  

Center #1: Lever

The students made catapults to launch small erasers.  They read the 

steps of the experiment and followed the steps to move the fulcrum 

to see the effect of moving the fulcrum on the launch.

Station #2: Inclined Plane

The students followed the steps outlined in the experiment to adjust the height of the

inclined plane to see what would happen to the car.  They had a tape measure

handy to measure the distance traveled by the car.  

They also experimented by adding friction...ask your child what happened to the

car when they added friction!

Center #3: Pulley

The students built a basic pulley to lift their snack into the 'tree house'.  The 

top of the ladder was the tree house!

Center #4: Wedge

The students used their hand as a wedge to knock down a tower.  

Capacity and Mass

We took a look at capacity!

Our first step in studying capacity was to look through our lunch pails

to look for anything with liters (L) or milliliters (mL) on it.  We 

found all sorts of containers!

We organized the items in order from the smallest number to the largest number

to find out more about what a mL means and what a  L means.

'Look...50mL is way smaller that 250mL....'

'This one is 39mL...'

Next...we needed to know how much a liter really was.

So...we used a juice box because so many of the students

are familiar with the size of a juice box.  They tried to figure out 

how many juice boxes made one liter.

They poured water from the juice box into a one liter container.

After using the juice box to make one liter, we used some smaller

containers to make one liter.  They discovered it took a lot

more scoops of the smaller container to make one liter.

Next we learned about mass!

Mass is measured in grams (g) and kilograms (kg) so we needed

to figure out what that would look like, and what that would feel like.

So...we headed right back to our lunch pails and found all sorts of 

items labelled with grams.

They were on a mission to find items that had a mass greater than 

a marker and items that had a smaller mass than the marker.

Challenge:  Find something (s) that has about the same mass as the 1kg 

bag of chocolate chips.

They searched the classroom to try and find things that would add up to 

about 1kg...they had a good time trying to fit it all in the baskets.

Ask your children to find things in your cupboards and in the fridge

with g, kg, L, and mL and compare!!