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Sister Team Fun:
Working Together and Getting To Know Each Other

Our class has been working with Ms. Deforge's class on an e-mailing project. Each child had an e-mail buddy from the other class to e-mail back and forth with. The day before the December break, our two classes met to complete a "Wreath of Peace" project together and to visit with our buddies. In the above video, kids are helping each other trace the hands that went into the center of the "Wreaths of Peace." In the video below, kids share some of their thoughts about the project and being e-mail buddies.

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Before vacation we wrapped up our unit on magnets. Kids learned a lot about how magnets work. To prepare for this video, we brainstormed a list of 20 things that we knew about magnets. Then each child picked one thing to share in the video. This our first attempt at creating a Flip Camera movie. Enjoy!

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We wrapped up our unit on sound by having kids demonstrate their understanding of how the experiments that we did showed that all sounds are caused by vibration. We've now moved on to a study of magnets. Kids have been doing a lot of hands-on exploration with many different kinds of magnets. We have some super scientists in our class!

In writing, we concluded our unit on revision and have moved into a study of paragraph structure. Our young writers are learning how to write topic sentences and support these sentences with proof sentences.

Vista 1st and 2nd grade readers are currently studying story elements. Characters, setting, movement through time, and problem and solution are the elements that we have been focusing on. I have been really impressed by the progress that the kids have made in reading so far this year.