Hoppy Easter!!!

The very first thing we did this week was check our paper mache yarn Easter Eggs Monday morning.  They were hardened up and ready to pop!  Popping the balloons inside was by far the best part!

We are studying poetry right now in writing.  Here are some wonderful Fishy Poems that the kids wrote using rhyme.

We also learned that not all poems rhyme.  We wrote an acrostic poem together about SPRING!  Then each student created their own acrostic poem, and you can see them as well as our tissue paper flowers up on our Poet Tree!

We went on a virtual field trip to the Baranov Museum in Kodiak, AK.  This is the oldest Russian structure in Alaska!  They also showed us how to make tissue paper flowers, which the Russians used to decorate their homes for spring.  It was really tricky!  Olivia figured it out and was able to help lots of other students in the class!

In our continuing study of electricity, we walked over to the Biomass Plant at the school to learn how the left over steam from the boiler makes electricity for our school!  Huge thank you to Tony Lee for setting up the fieldtrip and Rion Sabin for his amazing ability to talk to the kids on their level about electricity!  We learned a LOT and saw the school's "new" 100 year old generator set to come online this fall and make even MORE electricity!  

This is the 100 year old generator that the school bought and is working on.

Answering one of our questions about electricity, "What is inside of a wire?"

We had a special visit from Mr. Monroe, the High School shop teacher, who came down to teach us about electrical circuits!  He had some wonderful hands-on circuit boards and the kids had a blast connecting them all up with wires, figuring out how to make a motor work, how to light up a lightbulb, and even how to make an electromagnet!  It was awesome!!! Thank you Mr. Monroe!  We will continue to use the circuit boards to do even more experiments with electricity next week.

Wahoooo!!!!!!!  In Math everyone in the class got an A on their Math Facts Test this week!

We had fun making Easter Baskets and delivering them to our Book Buddies for a little Easter surprise!  We made candy nests, filled them with jelly beans and a Peep, and wrote cards for our Buddies.

The kids had so much fun delivering our surprises to the 5th grade!