Fun highlights from 

the last few weeks...

Team building exercise with Ms. Dovenbarger, students had to stack and unstack the cups using ONLY the rubber band tool provided :)

Our earthquake simulation lab...

Students attempted to build a structure using toothpicks and marshmallows that could withstand an earthquake. Our "ground" was 2 inch thick Jello.

                              

Future GIS experts! To review our geometry vocabulary students were tasked with creating their own "Geocity". Their town had to include certain buildings and streets meeting specific criteria, some streets parallel, some perpendicular, and a pool in the shape of a scalene triangle. 

                                                               

 Next week during our reading time we will do a short nonfiction mini unit. We will be learning about Christmas traditions in countries around the world and comparing/contrasting them to our traditions. To celebrate the end of the 9 weeks and our break :) we will spend next Friday (Dec. 12) charting what we've learned as we read different books/websites about other countries. I would like to have different foods from each country that we read about for the students to sample. Please let me know if you would like to send in an item listed below or if you have another idea of something that we could sample.

Ginger bread or ginger bread cookies (Germany, Sweden)

marzipan candy (Germany)

colored marshmallows , fruit salad w/ marshmallows (Mexico)

rice pudding (Sweden)
fruit cake or fruitcake cookies (England)

pizzelles (Italy)

Yule log cake (France…. maybe Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls?)

Sugar cookies (Norway)

Or please feel free to make or bring another snack- if your family has a special treat/tradition we’d love to taste it and hear about it!  We will also need water bottles or juice boxes, plates, napkins, and spoons or forks.

Thanks so much!