Forty Book Challenge!

On our Remembrance Day during the last week of school, we celebrated many things God has blessed us with and done for us in this year together.  One celebration was the final tally of books from our Forty Book Challenge.  We read 757 books this school year, an average of 38 per person.  That is some awesome reading by these mighty readers!

Congratulations, Dan Tavis!

We love to follow local authors and illustrators. This year we hoped to encourage Dan Tavis, a Christian young man from New Hampshire who is starting off his career as an illustrator with a bang. We sent Marco Polo comments to him after his new book on krill came out, and Whale Fall Cafe was one of our favorite picture books of the whole year.

Well, imagine hitting the New York Times bestsellers at #1 in children’s picture books while you’re still in your twenties! Dan did that this week!  Congratulations, Dan!

TWOSday, conclusion, but math goes on and on and on

*BOOK BUDDY TIME!

Of course, no TWOSday would be complete without our buddies.  At Mrs. Fullerton’s station, the olders helped the youngers create TWOSday crowns.  The station in our room began with enjoying a Chinese folk tale, Two of Everything by Hong, while eating pears (homophone joke!) and a tiny Twix.  Then we did a short engineering challenge, “What can you make with 22?”  You should hear our buddies count!

*2:22 on 2/2/22

And what did we do at 2:22 on 2/2/22?  We DANCED a giant TWO dance to Jack Hartmann’s “I Can Show the Number Two in Many Ways.”  Oh, the joy!

*So TWOSday is a wrap, but it clearly reminded us of the wonder each day brings.  God has surrounded us with so many things to enjoy and learn about, and we can’t wait to explore!

TWOSday, part TWO!

*The TWO snack challenge:

Come up with an interesting idea for your snack or lunch related to two.  It could be two of something, foods that come in pairs like cookies and milk, halves, or other creative ideas.  It was marvelous!

*More twinning!

*And math, glorious math!

We took on a geometry challenge to create the number two to look 3-D, but it was so much more.  Check out Steve Wyborney’s youtube video with extra challenges following.  Our math discussion was lively and rich.

TWOSday! 2/22/22

Since our class is blessed with so many sets of twins (FOUR!), how could we resist celebrating 2/22/22!

*Twinning up

*TWO morning meeting
We greeted each other with creative two ideas, and then we each shared something that comes in twos.  For our activity, we did a “Find Someone Who . . . . ” scavenger hunt all filled with twos.  Find someone who can write two adjectives, who can draw 2 rectangles with an area of 20, who can write 2 fractions greater than one-half, . . . .

*TWO writing
We are starting up the United States Postal Service’s Pen Pal Project with pen pals in Louisiana as part of our regions of the U.S.

*Stay tuned for more TWOSday excitement coming . . . . . 

#oneanother

Thanks to our room parents, all the families, and Mrs. Shedd for a rollicking Valentine’s Day party full of brotherly love and togetherness fun!

The students sewed 30 fleece neck warmers with Mrs. Shedd to donate at the Haven for those in need.  Giant thanks to our fleece donors.

Our school families generously donated socks and granola bars for the Haven as part of our missions project as well.  At the party, the students filled the socks with granola bars, wrapped them up, and topped them off with a tag sharing God’s love.  I delivered them to the Haven this morning.

How exciting to watch our students bear one another’s burdens and love one another with Christ’s love.  What a blessing!