Chugged hot chocolate

Rushed through presents

Built snowmen

Played with baby cousin

Invited friends to come over

Made hideouts

Rushed down a steep hill

Went on huge trips

Visited with amazing family

Tooted in a wonderful new year

How I set the ball up is like I tried doing it with cups faced down and put the ball on top.  “I think slower things have more energy,” was my prediction.  When your ball is on a high top like high on the cups, it goes slower, and if it is on a low surface, the ball goes fast.  I tried blowing on the cups with the ball on it, and it moved a lot.  We came to the conclusion that when a ball is going faster, it actually has more energy.

Sewing helps our students grow in a number of the Next Generation Science Standards. Here is one example. 3-5-ETS1-2. “Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.” Thank you, Mrs. Shedd, for providing this amazing STEM opportunity. We love it here!

A butterfly is an insect that has no vertebrae. They have large colorful wings. Butterflies live all over the world except in Antarctica or the desert. Snakes and monkeys and toads can eat butterflies. Butterflies don’t eat. They drink nectar from flowers.

I read about the emperor penguin.  An important vocabulary word in my book is species.  It means a group of animals that are the same.  I discovered penguins are actually birds.  A penguin is warm-blooded.  The emperor penguin’s habitat is in the icy cold deep water.

Summer packing for fall.

Packing away the trip to Washington, D.C.,

Packing up the hotel.

Packing up summer camp,

And moving on to fall.

Packing up for the breezy leaves.

Packing up the hot, breezing wind.

Packing up the baseball,

And moving on to football.

Packing up for playing in the leaves and raking.

Packing up for making cookies

And dressing up for fall.

Packing up going to the beach and hot weather.

Good luck, summer!

I’ll see you next year!