Digging in the Garden

This week we learned how to use Google Draw and Google Presentations, two more tools that will help us  present what we have learned about weather and engineering in our final project. The teams have been creating "Dream Houses" that have been engineered specifically to withstand the elements of their particular type of extreme weather. The ideas that they have come up with have been outstanding, from heated driveways to rubber roofs, they have truly been thinking outside the box and using phenomenal teamwork. We will be finishing these next week and will present our Google Slides to the fourth graders on Friday! Then the students will self reflect using a rubric and we will share on the in the next week or so.

Next week we are also excited to have Tom Messner, News Channel Five's meteorologist, joining us to discuss all of our weather and climate questions. To prepare for his visit we will be developing strong, thoughtful interview questions in Literacy over the next few days. Pictures of our celebrity guest to follow!

This week we celebrated the arrival of fall with our annual Craft Morning and the Garden Harvest Celebration on Friday. Thanks to all of the families who donated their time or refreshments. It was a hit as always! Here are a few photos and video from the fun morning.

It looks like we will be getting some cold winter temperatures and perhaps some
snow this week. Please remember to send your kiddos to school with hats, gloves, and warm jackets. Once the snow if officially here they will need boots and snow pants everyday at recess.