Mother's Day Tea

Mother's Day Tea - slideshows
Our Mother's Day Tea was a great success!  The children celebrated Mother's Day with their moms and aunts with tea, cookies, poetry and flowers!!  HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!

Mother Robin GIves Us a "Bird's Eye View"

Mama Robin has been building her nest right outside our classroom window.  We watched her bring pieces of grass and add them to the nest for several days.  On Friday, she settled in!  Mama Robin sat in her nest most of the day.  Maybe we will have baby robins, soon.  We can entertain them with our music in science and they can entertain us with their songs!!

Shake, Shake, Shake!

We had some fun with the Shakers!  The children found many different items to put inside their shakers.  We tried to guess what was inside each shaker after it was shaken but very few were guessed correctly.  After everyone shared their shakers the children worked together in small groups to put them in order from highest pitch to lowest pitch.  Then they presented them by group and we numbered them 1-4 (highest to lowest).  After that, we grouped all the ones together, then the two's and so on.  Finally we figured out the highest pitched shaker to the lowest pitched shaker for the whole class!

Making Sounds With Nails

We continued exploring pitch by tapping various sized nails.  The children discovered that longer nails had a lower pitch than shorter nails.

How Sound Travels

We experimented with tuning forks to learn how sound travels through solids, liquids, and gases.  The students discovered that sound travels best through solids.  

Dogs that Help Others

Mrs. Gough brought her two dogs to school to talk to the children about therapy dogs.  Mrs. Gough went through training with her two dogs so they could become therapy dogs.  Mrs. Gough and her sister visit area nursing homes with the dogs so they can comfort the elderly and provide some companionship.

Reading Around The World

The theme for reading week was "Read Around the World".  Each class chose a country to learn about and make a display for the room.  The children received passports to "travel" to the different countries and learn new things.  Our country was Austria.  We also traveled to Ireland, Australia, Belize, the Netherlands, Egypt and Germany.

     The children wore red and white on one day to represent the colors of our flag.  On Wednesday the high school athletes came to our school to read to different classes.  Derek Adams, an all-state wrestler, read Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel to our class.  Cody Rathbun, a baseball player, also came to visit and speak with the children.  The Chariho mascot also visited classes during the visit.  We ended our reading week with an all-school  silent reading period out in the halls.