Chinese New Year Celebration

 The students throughout our Allisonville community are learning Chinese.  We have an amazing instructor that teaches all grades once a week during our special area times.  The school had an amazing celebration for Chinese New Year, Friday, January 27.  We had a parade and a festival later that night.

Our celebration connected with the IB themes we are studying  in our school. We are studying different cultures, why we migrate and how there are similarities and differences in all cultures.

 Our principal, Mr. Pomerenke was the Grand Marshall of our parade!

The students enjoyed learning about other cultures and respecting and appreciating the diversity of our world!

Pretzel Geometry

 The students enjoyed reviewing lines and angles.  After we checked our masterpieces, they were a wonderful afternoon snack!

Heredity and Traits! (Where We Are in Place and Time)

Here are two of the re bops created.

The students enjoyed learning about heredity and traits.

We learned about animal adaptations and how a penguin and other animals adapt to an environment!!





BLUBBER!!!One of our students was surprised that her hand was so warm after being placed in ice, then in shortening.! Penguins have blubber to keep them warm.

What a Busy January!

We have enjoyed our January units!  We have been very busy studying Indiana's journey to STATEHOOD!  We had two wonderful field trips to the State House and to the Harrison Home which was one of our presidents!

Our IB units have focused on Sharing the Planet and Who We Are!!  During the Sharing the Planet theme, we had the opportunity to make our own Re-bops when studying heredity and traits.  See the pictures below!

In February we will be studying geography, Earth surfaces and landforms.  The students are already bringing in pictures from vacations or connections they are finding in magazines and pamphlets. It will be an incredible experience observing landforms and changes all over the world as well as in our own front yard!  Please check out our pictures of our journey through January!!

The Brew Crew!

 

Stay tuned for more photos from the Stock Market game, Everybody Counts and Rebop WORLD!

Homework for Tuesday, January 17, 2012

I hope everyone had a wonderful Martin Luther King Day!  Tomorrow we are excited about a special presentation "Everybody Counts!" A big thank you to Mrs. Farrell for organizing this program for the school. 

The homework tonight is:

1. Scholastic News-  Read and highlight the newspaper for our discussion tomorrow.
2. Language WS-  Hitchhiker in the Bathroom
3. DynaMath- pages 7-9 and Cruisin Along WS
4. Hoosier Hike #2 due Friday
5. Book Report Bingo-   Keep reading your books!

Have an amazing night!  Mrs. Brewer