The First Thanksgiving

Our study of the first Thanksgiving began in England and followed the Pilgrims on the Mayflower to Cape Cod and Plymouth. Each child made a Pilgrim house and a Wetu (the house of the Native American Wampanoag).

Four Winds!

Thank you to Rachel Kring, Grace Ciffo, and Heidi Simkins for teaching us about the sun!

Learning about how the sun shines on the earth to make day and night!

Hoping to make the solar cooker work!

Sea Star Quilt!

Our finished sea star quilt

The students problem solved around how many squares of each color they would need to complete their quilt.  They had to think about the relationship of triangles to squares in order to determine how many yellow squares they would need and how to turn them into triangles!

Students here are engaged in "private reasoning time," thinking about how many sea star arms are on the quilt.  After having time to ponder this individually, the children then took turns explaining their thinking to a partner and then to the whole group.  Students explained their reasoning by sharing their counting strategies.

Fun-O-Ween!

On Thursday, we celebrated Fun-O-Ween!  In the afternoon, we changed into our costumes and were led around the school by a group of 6th graders to many activities including Musical Chairs, the Limbo, Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin and more!  Thank you 6th grade team! Check out our pictures to see all the fun we had!    

The Limbo!

Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin!

Grab the Pumpkin!

Ghost in the Graveyard!

Bean Bag Toss!

Spooky Stories!

Musical Chairs!

Bowling!