Happy Easter

We read the beautiful story, The Legend of the Three Trees. It is a story that begins with three trees that dream big, just as children do...

  

Wishing you all a Blessed and Happy Easter.

Holy Week Tableau

Palm Sunday

Holy Thursday

Good Friday

Easter Sunday

2 dimensional shapes

The Greedy Triangle
We read the funny story, 
and tried to mimic the triangle and all of his dissatisfied shapes;

triangle

quadrilateral

pentagon

hexagon

heptagon

octagon

Things got a little tricky trying to make a nonagon and a decagon!

We Rocked our Socks for Down Syndrome Awareness!

February Students of the Month

Congratulations for your perseverance and your smart choices! 

First Communion Retreat

On Thursday, we spent the morning at The Good Shepherd for our First Communion Retreat. The students were involved in many different activities enhancing their journey toward the sacrament they are about to receive.

 

 

 A special thank you to Father Gary, Miss Betty and their team of volunteers who helped to create a spiritual learning experience.

S.T.E.M. Rubric

Build a Car- S.T.E.M. assignment

                             (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)

Stem-tastic	Your project is successfully designed and constructed to perform a specific function. You answered all class questions with confidence and knowledge. You were able to talk about the challenges in your project and explain clearly how you solved the problems.
Stem-azing	Your project is designed and constructed to perform a specific function, but may not work. You answered most class questions with confidence and knowledge. You were able to talk about the challenges in your project and explain how you solved the problems.
stem-progress	Your project is not designed to perform a specific function, however is constructed well. With a little help, you answered some class questions. You explained the challenges in your project and needed some prompting to tell how the problems were solved.
Stem-working on it	Your project is not designed to perform a specific function and is not constructed well. You had a lot of trouble answering class questions, even with help from the teacher. You explained the challenges in your project with some prompting. You had trouble remembering how you solved the problems.

S.T.E.M. Project

Build an Automobile

Science activities satisfy natural curiosities and are motivational for future learning. Students are challenged to design and build a "car" that can roll and move down an inclined plane, and with pushing force, on a flat surface. Please encourage your child to be creative and as independent as possible when selecting materials to build with (minimal adult assistance please).

Students will get to choose what materials they will use for this project. Part of the engineering design process is deciding what materials to use and then testing them. The children will complete this assignment in class. Here are some examples:     

• Round objects to use as wheels, like CDs or bottle caps
• Straight objects to use as axles, like pencils, popsicle sticks or wooden skewers
• Construction materials for the body of your car, like kleenex boxes,  plastic bottles, plastic cups, yogurt drink containers.
• Different materials to attach things together, like tape and rubber bands

All Materials are to be brought to school for “building” day on Wednesday, March 28th

Key Vocabulary

axle - a rod that connects two wheels so they can turn

chassis - the frame that connects the two axles

wheel - disc that turns on an axis

ramp - inclined plane that something can roll down

test - to check if a designed structure works

engineer - a person who designs, builds and tests things

model - something that represents a real object