Thursday, January 15 - a great day at school!  We have been rotating classrooms for science.  Would you believe we can balance a pencil on a popsicle stick at it's point??  We did it!  The counterweights really helped.

And we're learning about magnets.  Here are some some fun ones that we get to build with.  Ask any of the kids which two metals won't stick to a magnet - they know!

 This month our Author Study is all about Kate DiCamillo and here she is in the newspaper - cool!

This is where we can get creative.  It's our "mini theatre area."  When we're back here we can choose a background then create characters to be in a play.  Once we make our characters, we attach them to a paper clip. We have magnets glued to sticks that we put under the stage.  The magnets attract the paperclips from under the stage.  When we move the stick, our character moves.  It's been fun to try!

 And who says we ever need to take a break from learning?  In 2HR, we are reading and thinking even in the bathroom.  Since one of our guided reading groups is learning about the rainforest, Mrs. Hinderer thought everyone should learn the same good information so she turned our bathroom into The Great Kapok Tree.  It has the four layers of the rainforest, leaves, animals and even a huge, hairy tarantula!