We have been busy, busy, busy! This month we did a unit on the Underground Railroad and discovered how Harriet Tubman was a great leader and very brave woman. During our study we had the chance to use some activotes with our borrowed Smart Board. We had a ton of fun! The Smart Board recognizes what button the students push and then charts it for us! How neat is that?

Here they are voting:

An example of a question.

After we voted this is one of the graphs I could choose for us to look at. The graph not only tells me how we did with the question but it gives me a quick check on how well we are understanding the material.

We also celebrated Valentine's Day this month on Friday the 13th. (Ha!) Our pen pals sent us some cool valentines that they created with a computer program. They chose words that described their pen pals and then typed them in to create an artistic piece of writing. Thank you pen pals!

We had lots of treats to eat...

and valentines to open.

Mrs. Roberts came and taught us a new song that involved some fancy dance moves. I think we got them down though!

We have also been busy doing secret art projects in order to get ready for:

ARTS & TARTS

Tuesday, March 3rd 5:30 - 8:00

Dinner, Dessert, Baskets to bid on, Book Fair

LOTS OF ARTWORK

We have another new student! NH has joined Room 12 and we are excited he is here! The lucky guy came at just the right time because we earned our reward for good behavior. We had some ice cream sundae's with Valentine sprinkles and everyone enjoyed them (including me!).

Seeing Stars!

January was a very busy month with lots of "Stars of the Week". I wanted to make sure that all of them had a chance to show their posters to you!

Here's Ms. KC.

Next up was NH.

Followed by PB.

KW also had a turn to shine and share with us.

And to start out our month of Feb. was RH.

Snow is Fun for Us!

We finally got to go out and play in the snow on Tuesday afternoon. It was FUN!

IH and PB are balancing on top of a giant snowball.

WH is making the top of a snowman while CB is simply enjoying kicking the snow (below).

These 3 worked together to make a big snowball.

I barely recognized this guy until he smiled and then I knew it was CK!