Fun Run Extravaganza

Hello Families-

What a week of excitement we had here at RMCS! This week included Farm to School, the Fun Run,  and celebrations including our first reading celerbation, PJ day, silly sock day, and making slime. Wow! Along of with all of this fun, we still worked hard and learned a lot. This week in reading, we focused on author's intentions of teaching lessons to readers. We realized that many books have similar lessons, and that the author sometimes will have parts of a book come back again and again to have the whole book click together. To celebrate our first unit of reading, we did a "cheers" to reading and colored in bookmarks that remind us of word solving strategies.

Our Farm to School lesson this month was about bees. We learned that there is a serious bee crisis happening in the world, and especially in Vermont, with a loss of 53% of Vermont's bee population. We talked about how pollinators help us grow food and see beautiful flowers. Then we did a "blind" taste test of two different types of apples drizzled in honey. Here we are enjoying our apples.

We had a blast at the Fun Run! Thanks to all that helped make this happen. Here's our race day faces.

Finally, we celebrated our class's earning of Marky Marks by making slime. It was a huge success! If you'd like to make some at home, click here for the recipe. Here's our slimey day.

Other Things to Ask Your Child About:
- How many minutes in one hour?
- Mercy Watson to the Rescue
- Fire Safety Posters
- Using chromebooks during menu time
- Writing bit by bit

Have a wonderful weekend!
Kelly