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Upcoming Dates & Annoucements:
- Your child will be coming home with Raffle Tickets that the PFA is selling for a Disney Trip or a $3,000 Uniglobe gift card. You are encouraged to sell your tickets and return cash or a check to the office. Proceeds support field trips, faculty and student appreciation week, field day and more! Additional tickets can be picked up in the office, or can be purchased online here: https://app.betterunite.com/WheelingCountryDaySchool-celebrategamenight Ticket stubs and money are due on or before March 28th. Winner will be drawn at CELEBRATE! Winner need not be present.
- Friday, February 27th- March 8th- Spring Break
- Saturday, March 28th- Mark your calendars for CELEBRATE!
Families,
This week in our classroom, we dove into clouds, raindrops, shelter, self-love, and so much more. It was one of those beautiful weeks where science, literacy, creativity, and heart learning all flowed together!
☁️ Monday – Cloud Gazing & Positive Thinking
We began our week with the delightful book Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw. Inspired by the story, students explored clouds in a hands-on way! Using milk and baby oil, they carefully sucked up the mixture with pipettes and squirted it onto mirrors to see what shapes would appear. Just like in the book, their imaginations took flight as they described what their clouds looked like!
Moxley – “A Sword”
Hailey – “ A car”
Leonardo – “A skelelton head”
Henry- “A vaccum”
Mylah – “A persons head”
Lola – “A rock”
Scarlett- “A pig”
Stylee – “A puffy tailed dog”
Bradfod – “A Heart
Lucas – “A cookie that has been bitten out of two times”
Alyx – “A Duck”
Wendell – “ the number 3 with pieces falling off”
Bodhi – “A duckling”
Noah – “A platypus”
Evelyn – “lips”
Rory “A Duck – a big one”
Izaak – “A dino”
Parker – “A cow”
Emma – “A puppett”
Daxton – “A Fish”
In Social Emotional Learning, we read Who Am I? by Susan Verde and practiced powerful affirmations — kind words we tell ourselves. Our wonderful Cougar Buddies (5th graders) joined us to practice speaking positively to ourselves. It was heartwarming to see our students shine with confidence and encouragement.
💧 Tuesday – Becoming Raindrops
We read The Littlest Raindrop by Autumn Publishing and began exploring the water cycle. Students painted large raindrops, beginning a week-long project that would grow along with their understanding of how water moves through our world.
🌧️ Wednesday – The Water Cycle in Action
After reading Drop by Emily Kate Moon, we took a closer look at detailed water cycle illustrations. Students labeled and illustrated their own large raindrops with the big science words:
Precipitation, Collection, Condensation, and Evaporation.
They worked so hard practicing neat handwriting while learning big vocabulary — we are so proud of their focus and effort!
🏡 Thursday – Shelters & Storms
We read A Home Can Be… by Stephanie Seidler and discussed how animals find shelter from rain and storms. Then came engineering time!
Students experimented with sticks, moss, cardboard, tubes, popsicle sticks, sand bricks, and blocks to build shelters. They tested which materials were strongest — a perfect introduction as we begin learning more about storms and weather safety next week!
🔢 Math – Tens & Ones
In math, we continued building number sense by identifying tens and ones and writing equations to match. Students practiced breaking numbers apart and putting them back together using addition through tens and ones. Their confidence with place value is growing every day!
📖 Phonics & Reading Growth
With Miss Arden:
- Reviewed am/an
- Learned a new red word
- We are now up to THREE red words!
- Practiced the new sound /ch/
With Miss Hanna:
- Learned the blend /squ/
- Applied it to reading and spelling
- Read Floppy Mop together — each student read one page and then proudly reread the whole book independently
Readers are truly in the making!
On Friday, we introduced our upcoming whole-group book studies. Students will begin practicing recall and comprehension skills, identifying characters, setting, and plot. We are building strong thinkers and storytellers!
Have a great weekend!
Hanna & Arden
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