Celebrating Summer Birthdays!

Since I came to CCS in January, our class was able to celebrate every student's birthday! We had 3 birthdays in February, 2 in March, and 2 in April. That leaves only 2 - and they are both in the summer, July and August. So, we decided we must CELEBRATE!

We all hope that you have wonderful birthdays this summer, Jihye and Paolo!

Our AMAZING Social Studies Unit Projects

Instead of a traditional test at the end of our last unit on the Southwest part of the US, I decided to let the children do a group project.

I randomly divided the students into 2 groups. Each group had to choose 4 major events in the history of the Southwest and then each student was responsible for creating something 3D to represent that event.

You should have already seen individual pictures of your child's work, but here are the two timelines that we ended up with! They did a GREAT job!

Science Investigations

We have been studying weather lately, specifically WIND.

We made wind vanes to measure the direction of the wind.



We also made anemometers to measure wind speed.

Thumbprint Pictures!

When we read a detective story in our Reading book we learned about our fingerprints and then made a picture using our own fingerprints!