Shoo Fly Quilt

We have been spending time during math learning about and using shapes in a variety of ways. This week, we explored with triangles and squares and created a beautiful paper quilt using our shapes.

We talked about what we noticed about our quilt with our math partners and then shared as a class. Here are some of the students' observations:

Wyatt: "The pattern is purple, yellow, purple, yellow."

Blake: "There are diagonal lines."

Stephanie: "One square has yellow on the outside, one has purple on the outside."

Addie B.: "The pattern goes across and up and down."

Jared: "There are 35 squares altogether."

Brendan: "There are 7 squares going across the top."

Anderson: "There's 5 rows of 7."

If you can, stop by our classroom to see this beautiful, mathematical quilt in person!

Other Exciting Happenings!

We did lots of other things during the month of February! Please enjoy these pictures of a few of these things!

BOTH of Lexi's grandmas were able to come be our Mystery Readers! How fun!

We had a Four Winds lesson about the importance of Air. Laura and Kristin came in and did a fabulous job teaching us about this. I am always impressed with how engaging the activities are for this hands-on science program!

Starting off with a little puppet show.

How many pumps of air to pop the caps off of the plastic containers?

Addie flies a plastic bag parachute.

Lexi tries out a plastic bag parachute!

Thanks to Laura and Kristin for another fun Four Winds lesson!

Dental Hygeine

February is Dental Health Month, and H.C.S. is lucky enough to have our very own "Tooth Tutor." Darcie is a dental hygienist who offers her time to teach students how to take care of their teeth. Check out the photos from her visit! 

Darcie demonstrates brushing using her giant toothbrush and model teeth.

Blake pretends his fingers are teeth as Darcie demonstrates proper flossing technique.

Dylan and Clement practice "flossing" their fingers.

Anderson and Brendan give flossing a try!

We even got to take home a new toothbrush and activity book! Thanks, Darcie!

Valentine's Day Fun!

Even though our Valentine's Day celebration was postponed due to a snow day, we still had great fun on Monday!

Thanks to everyone for sending in cereal boxes. We used them to make our valentine's mailboxes!
Everyone enjoyed giving and receiving special valentine's to their friends. I was super impressed with all of the candy-alternatives you came up with!

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 We did a number of fun activities to celebrate the day. We sorted and graphed paper conversation hearts, played games, and read a valentine book modeled after Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Blake makes his conversation heart graph.

Stephanie, Jared, and Clement play CVC Word Bingo (Valentine edition!)

Coloring in the book "Valentine, Valentine, What Do You See?"

We ended the day with lots of yummy treats! Check out this spread! Thank you to everyone for sending in the delicious snacks for our party.