Classroom News 

2nd Grade - The 2nd graders shared their family's holiday traditions by using a PowerPoint presentation this week.    

4th Grade - Happy Holidays to our class tree!  We readopted my class tree that was planted with my last year's class. This Project Learning Tree activity is call "Adopt a Tree."  We have a class "Tree Log" to record our class observations about our tree. My students and I were noting both qualitative (sense based)  and quantitative (measurable)  observations in our science journals about the tree and the habitat around the tree. We are hopeful that our seedling will make it through it's first winter. They noted that it is 8 1/2 inches or 21.5 centimeters tall. One student commented that "some of its spiky needles are brown and looks like it may be dying".  Another student thought it may be going dormant for the winter. We will compare and contrast the changes in our tree in the spring and hope it shows new growth and sheds those old needles. As a Random Act of Kindness, my 4/5th graders have added a strand of garland to all our saplings around RMAE for the holidays.