Week 27

Weekly Greetings!

As always, our time together last week was full of learning and new experiences. One highlight was on Wednesday afternoon when a visiting team of scientists from UAF came to help the students explore properties of snow. There were 3 stations in the gym where students could look closely at snow. In the photos to follow, students saw how different each snowflake is and then created their own using coffee filters.

 At another station, they looked at a model of snow molecules and then tried to recreate the model using candy and toothpicks.

They also looked at snow under a microscope and then drew what they saw as it was projected on a computer screen. It was a challenge to draw the snow, as it could clearly be seen changing while it melted.

To stress the dangers from avalanche, the students participated in adding salt, oatmeal, and flour onto a board made to show different types of snow fall and textures that can be found on a mountain slope. Then as the board was lifted to make an angle found on a mountain slope, the students watched the simulated avalanche take place. We all went outside after that to look at and measure layers of snow.

Friday afternoon, 2 Quarter awards were given for perfect attendance and honor roll. Two students from our group were recognized for perfect attendance.

I also gave out a special award for perfect homework participation. The students pictured next have never missed doing their homework for a full semester.

These students from our class had tickets in for a drawing for having 100% on a variety of subjects they were tested in throughout the quarter.

On Thursday this week, I will be taking some of the students from each age group to Tok that have been working hard to compete in the Battle of the Books. It will be a long day, and not all the students in the class will be able to go. There will be a substitute covering the class, and I will leave assignments for the others while we are away for the day.

Please continue to send your child with warm snow gear to go outside, The PE teachers have been taking them out on the snowshoes in the warmer temperatures, and I try to take them outside on Wednesday afternoons.

Have an awesome week!

Kind Regards,

Julie Brown