It's a Wrap!
Week #38 June 10-14

We wrapped up our amazing school year this week.  We celebrated our time together with many of our favorite activities, and we completed our science unit by planting our pollinator garden.  Here are some pictures of that process along with a 22 second elapsed time video clip of the 90 minutes it took 60 students to actually get over 220 plants in the ground!  Also, check out the "student stories" feature on the SBSD main webpage for a share of our plant work written by our district's blogger, Corey Burdick.
https://www.sbschools.net/Page/1523

Along with a variety of student work that came home this week, you may have also seen a few resources for your students to use this summer including:

• sign in information for Coding from Mrs. Springer
• Barnes & Noble book log entry form and summer reading brochure
• summer math calendars to solve a problem daily in July & August

Memory Books.  The students were always excited to add a page to their memory books whenever a special event happened this year.  However, when we shared our compliment cards with each other this week, they were also appreciative, sappy, and wished for more pages!  I do hope they treasure those...speaking of treasure, each student also came home today with a box containing 2 treasures from me.  I hope they find and collect treasures from their summer fun to add to this memento.

Thank you very much for your support this year.  Thank you also for your generous end-of-the-year gifts and thoughtful notes of gratitude.  Your children are incredible, and I look forward to watching them grow and hearing about their future work and accomplishments.  Please know that I am always here for them. 

All my best,

Mrs. Hock

Family, Field Day and Fun!
Week #37 June 3-7, 2019

This week flew by as we enjoyed the PTO Family Picnic on Tuesday, Field Day on Friday and had fun creating models of seed dispersal in between those special events.

Here are a few pictures from Tuesday's lunch.  We were thankful to be together, eating outside and sharing blankets with friends.

Field Day occurred on a glorious Friday morning.  We were so fortunate to have the amazing weather support efforts from Mr. Day and all the parent volunteers.  Great times were had by all!  Did you know that Mrs. Hock hit a home run over the fence, scored a goal in hockey and avoided getting wet in the water bottle battle?

The national science standards state that students need to create models not only as engineers, but also as experts of plant and animal relationships.  This week we created models of seed dispersal.  Students were given 4 seeds to create a model of how each seed could travel (by wind, water, animal or propulsion) to land far from its parent plant.  Students made plans, created models, tested & revised their models, and then demonstrated the models to their peers.  They all persevered, designed impressive models of dispersal and smiled as well!

Other things to ask your child about this week:
*Building and drawing triangles and quadrilaterals
*"Last Shape in Wins"
*Mystery Doug
*Analyzing height data of Kindergarten, 2nd grade and 3rd grade students

Enjoy the beautiful weekend with your family!
Mrs. Hock