Characters Come Alive!

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We began the week sending out sweet sentiments to our classmates on Valentine's Day. A big thanks to all who contributed a snack or other party supplies to help us celebrate the day. This week we also continued with our 100 Acts of Kindness challenge. Our goal was to fill out 100 hearts with random acts of kindness at home and school between the 100th day of school and Valentine's Day. We came close with 70 acts of kindness in just five days, so we decided to continue through this week to see if we can get to 100 before we head on winter break.

On Thursday we celebrated February's Synergy Spirit Day in style when we all dressed like our favorite book characters. The students blew us away with their thoughtfulness and creativity. We even drew crowds from around the school to check out characters like Junie B., Paul Bunyan, and Cat in the Hat. It was too bad that Ms. Rogers had to miss it. Her substitute, Ms. Viola Swamp was a real meanie! :) Check out this week's photo collage to see our class costumes and some slides of the Synergy Parade that we put on.

Our class filled up our warm buzzy jar this week and we celebrated our accomplishment with homemade smoothies! Now we are starting over and earning buzziest for being safe, kind, and responsible.

This week in math we continued with our study of Geometry and the kids were introduced to the idea of tessellation in the book A Cloak For A Dreamer. Then they got to work in their dyad partners to see if they could create a pattern that tessellated (or had no gaps). We will move into creating quilt squares using these concepts during the next few sessions in math.

We hope to see you on Tuesday morning at the Math Morning here at ABS. From 7:45-8:15 you can come and get a first hand look at our current Bridges Workplaces by participating in them with your young mathematician.

Lastly, in case you haven't noticed, it seems that we are in the middle of the longest mud season in Vermont history! This means that the playground and hill at ABS are very muddy. Please consider sending a change of clothes for your child to keep in his/her locker just in case the day's clothes get dirty while playing outside. It is hard to ask them to wear snow pants when it is 45 degrees outside!

Be Well!
Mrs. Eaton