Mrs. Weymouth

Mrs. Weymouth’s first grade class has been observing and comparing woodland animals and plants and freshwater animals and plants. Each week students look at a different organism, i.e. tree seedling, moss, elodea, guppies, snails, bess beetle and sow bugs. Sometimes the class uses a microscope that is connected to out computer so they can really see the organism clearly.

Mrs. Heller

Fourth grade students in Mrs. Heller’s class put their art and math skills to good use by making posters to advertise the Pumpkin Festival. The focus of the assignment was on rounded/estimated numbers and exact numbers. Hopefully you saw the students’ creative work displayed around the school when you were at the Pumpkin Festival.

The class is also utilizing it’s writing skills by working on a class newsletter to keep their families informed of class activities. The first copy of www.4thgrade-facts.com was recently published with the help of Mrs. Leonard and Mrs. Komm.

Mrs. Combra

With Thanksgiving around the corner, Mrs. Combra’s class is planning on making cranberry bread (using Granny’s secret recipe) and reading Cranberry Thanksgiving.

As part of the third grade curriculum, the entire third grade traveled to Plimouth Plantation. Mrs. Combra’s class wrote thank you letters to MPTG to thank it for funding part of the trip. They had a good time and learned a how things have changed since the first Thanksgiving. Here are a few of their thoughts:

"...games children played. Pilgrim girls ran around. Then, they would sit down and whoever had the biggest dress puffed out the most wins!"

"I learned that Pilgrims lived in very small houses with sometimes over ten people."

"I learned Pilgrim’s clean pots and pans with buckets of water, not a dishwasher."

"One thing I learned was that they use a bladder for a football."

"One thing I saw was the Indians cooking a goose over a fire...they made tea with strawberry leaves and mints...they used oil instead of chapstick on their lips..."