BUILDING STUDY

The New year begins with our building study.  This week we will ask the students what they know about buildings.  We will read The 3 Little Pigs and Changes, Changes.  Of course the students will love the activities we have planned for The 3 Little Pigs.  They will be making homes for the Pigs and using a hairdryer to blow the houses down just as the Wolf did in the story.

Our math lesson will include graphing how many people live in our own homes and we will be making blue prints and buildings for art.

The entire downstairs will be joining in on a family project.  Please read the information below and have your family creation in to school by January 22, 2018

January Family Project – Paper bag Building

To kick off our buildings unit we are asking each child to design or recreate a house or building from their community. Ask your child about someplace they like to go, or while driving discuss the different stores, building, and houses you pass and ask them about the similarities and differences. This could help them design and create their own building using the paper bag. You can add on by using construction paper, small toys, or various crafting supplies to create a building or house for our Building Community!

Below is an examples:

Be creative and have everyone in the family participate.  It will be fun to see what creations show up to school!

PM Class only:

Monday we will be visited by Miss Debi Abela from the University Circle Initiative.  She will be sharing information with the students about the Museum for Contemporary Art-MOCA.  We will be taking our first 2018 field trip this Thursday to MOCA..  This museum is very interesting and will get the students thinking about various shapes and lines they may find in art.

For those of you who did not send snack in before break we are in need of snack, paper towels and napkins.  Thanks for helping us out!!