Week of March 30

The kids did a wonderful job with the Living History Museum on Friday.  Here are some great pictures from the event. 

If you didn't get a chance to see it, here is the quilt the students made for the Seabury Auction. Thanks to Cathy Moeller and her friends for helping with the sewing!
 
Just a reminder that next week is Spring Break.  Hopefully you and your Beacon will have a wonderful and restful time off of school to recharge. 

Seabury Science Fair, Thursday, March 17, 2011

Seabury Science Fair

March 17, 2011

                                        My science fair project wanted to see if heat makes air rise

                                 Look what I discovered ! The yellow light made the plants grow!!

           

 Nothing like a special grandfather to come and see the science fair projects!(and his granddaughter!)

                                                  Here's my Taste vrs. Smell experiment.

                                                          I love Science!

                                          A special grandmother for a special Beacon

                                        Hard work on the solar system really paid off! Great job!

                                                        Moms love their son's Science Fair projects

                                  Mrs. Wollom made a guest appearance in our Beacons' Room!

                                          Dads love their Beacon's science Fair projects, too

Smiling Science Fair faces! 

                                                                        Amazing!

                                                 We had a "ball" at the Science Fair night!

                                                           Very exciting experiment!

                                                      I love my Grandmother!

                                             This photo says it all...What a Great Science Fair!

Week in Review March 23, 2011

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Living History Museum Day in Colonial America!

1:20-2:40 in the multi-purpose room

Saturday, March 26th

SEABURY AUCTION!

See you there!

April 2nd-April 10th

Spring Break!

Classes resume at 8:10 am on

Monday,April 11th

In Language Arts, students continue with their reading groups. They are working on their Bloom's taxonomy higher learning skills of synthesizing by writing their chapter summaries and answering questions concerning character motivation. We have also started our weekly Wordly Wise packets which they work on during Language Arts and spelling.

In Math, all students are half way through Chapter 9!  We are learning about area and perimeter. Tuesday, we went outside to measure the perimeter of the playground. We live for those sunny days!

We are working in Writer's Workshop in the computer lab each day. Everyone is on the "publishing" portion of their amazing story. Just wait until you read it! Your Beacon's story will blow your socks off. Students are learning how to change the font and font size (no more than 24), and put in page breaks where they want to add a picture. Students are also deciding if they want the words to be on the top of the page or bottom and make those adjustments. We are including a title page, copyright page, and dedication page.

In Science we are finishing up the bones and organs on our black clothes or paper!They look amazing!

Social Studies has focused on our culminating event of this Friday's Living History Museum Day on Colonial America. Please come to experience your Beacon's hard work, on display in the multipurpose room from 1:15-2:40. It will be an interactive experience! One student will be playing Yankee Doodle Dandy on the piano and singing all the verses as well. You will not want to miss this!

Week in Review March 16th

Happy

Saint Patrick's Day!!!

May the Luck of the Irish

be with you today!

Upcoming Events:

 

Science Fair

Thursday, March 17th

6-7pm

Science:  Big News! The Science Fair is tomorrow evening,

6-7 p.m. We will have a Bake Sale from 7-7:30 in the multi-purpose . All proceeds will go to the Japan Relief Fund. We hope to see you tomorrow evening.

               Living History Museum Day on Colonial America!
                                       Friday, March 25th
                            Multi-purpose room 1:15-2:40
Please have your Beacon boy wear a white shirt, black pants and white tube socks to put over their pant legs. (Soccer socks are fine!)
Your Beacon girl should wear a white shirt or blouse, a long skirt (please do not go out and buy one if you do not have one), and an apron.

                                      Spring Break!
               Saturday April 2nd -Sunday, April 10th                               

Week in Review March 10, 2011

                                SEABURY  SCIENCE  FAIR

            This Thursday, March 17th       

                                               6-7p.m.
Come visit classrooms to see projects and talk to young scientists!

                                                                7-7:30p.m.
                 Stay for refreshments in the multi-purpose room!


If you are unable to attend the evening Science Fair then please come in during the morning and join in the presentations. The schedule is as follows as to the time each class will be giving their presentations:

8:45-9:25 Sharks; Superstars


9:30-10:15 Navigators; Explorers

11-11:30 Beacons


1:30-2 MS in LS downstairs

UPCOMING EVENTS:

March 18th
Morning coffee with Sandi Wollum
7:30 am

March 25th Living History Museum Day
A Day in the Life of a Colonial American Child
1:15-2:30

March 26th
Seabury Auction
See you there!!

Spring Break
 Begins at 3:00 p.m.on April 1st 
and school resumes on Monday, April 10th

Week in Review Wednesday, March 2nd

                                     READ ACROSS AMERICA        
                              "You are never too old, too wacky, too wild,
                        To pick up a book and read to a child."
                                   ~Dr. Seuss a.k.a.Theodor Seuss Geisel~
                                                               4-9-1904~~9-24-1991

               Happy 107th Birthday to Dr. Seuss!
        In honor of this famed America, Seabury celebrated our annual Crazy Hat Day. You'll find some great photos of our Beacons in their craziest hats ! We have also worked hard in class in all subjects; but today we spent extra time during silent reading to do just that...read, read, read!We also participated in the Read Across America Jeopardy Game! So be sure to view all the photos at the bottom of this blog entry.

                           UPCOMING EVENTS:

~This Friday, March 4th~

 Special Gathering

Life After Seabury!

   9:00~10:00 am

 You don't want to miss this!

                              ~March 10 and March 11~
                                      No School                
                                            Parent-Teacher Conferences

                                       ~March 17th~
                                         Science Fair
                         During the day presentation times t.b.a.
                           Evening viewing 6:00p.m.-8:00p.m.


                                                          ~March 18~                                                                 
                          Beacons' Parent Coffee with Sandi, 7:30 a.m.

                                    ~March 25th~
                           Living History Museum Day:
                A Day in the Life of a Colonial American Kid
                                       1:30-2:45p.m.


                                                     ~March 26~

                                          Our Seabury Auction!
                           See you there!

       ~Saturday, April 2th-Sunday, April 10th ~
                           Spring Break!

                      Here's What's Been Going On
                      In the Beacons' World:
Writers' Workshop continues with our action stories for the hard backed books. Many of the students have finished writing their stories and are peer conferencing, editing, or teacher conferencing. We will be publishing these books on the computer in the next few weeks and will have a publisher's picnic once we get them finished.
Reading: Students are busily working on their respective reading books. They are all improving on their higher level thinking skills of writing summaries of their chapters.
Math: Students in both the Math Magicians and Math Magicals are wrapping up their chapters and will have a test on their chapters next week.
Science:
      The Beacons are on their way to completing the Science Fair projects. All Science Fair projects are due on Monday, March 7th. Please help your Beacon remember to bring it in on time!

Social Studies: Students have selected their Colonial "persona" and are researching their respective crafts. It will be an exciting presentation on March 25th in the afternoon 1:30-2:50. We hope to see you there. More information will be going home in this week's Friday Folder.
          Here are our Crazy Hat day photos as we celebrate 
                 Read Across America and Dr. Seuss Day!

                                            

                    Our 4 Beacons' team members preparing for
                                              the big competition

                       Hmmmmm, what is the correct answer?

We WON!!! 1st Prize