Woo Hoo!

Enjoy the long break and looking forward to hearing about everyone's adventures when we're back together in the new year.

Happy Everything and Merry Always!

Meaghan and Alexa's Weekly Update...

Hello, this is Agent Meaghan and Agent Alexa reporting from Mrs.Clayton’s class. We have found many amazing things that happened to them in their amazing week. First, they had their Science Test, Then on Thursday, they had art. Last but definitely not least, they had an amazing PJ Day on the last day before break! Hope you guys enjoy our Weekly Update and have an awesome Winter Break! Agent Meaghan Out! This week, in Science we had a Test and finished up our third topic. Our third investigation  was called Fizz Quiz and I think it was the best so far! We have been learning about chemical reactions and chemical equations. We got to test out all sorts of things like mixing baking soda, citric acid, calcium chloride and water together in a bag. The bag blew up with  carbon dioxide and it created a precipitate. We also put baking soda and calcium chloride in a bag and that made a precipitate of calcium carbonate (calcium carbonate is chalk). The Chemical Equations were really fun too! It was fun to learn all the chemical names of items all around us. Next semester, it won’t be science, but it will be Social Studies! This week, we had Art. Most people have finished their Singapore shophouses and pasta boxes. The pasta boxes could get colored with spray paint and glitter if you wanted them spray painted. The Singapore shophouses were fun to make and paint. A shophouse is a shop at the bottom and a house on top and sometimes there are even three floors if you are a rich person. You can even give your pasta box and your singapore shophouse to your parents! Agent Alexa gave her dad her pasta box and her mom her shophouse. I had a bunch of fun making both projects and I am giving my mom my pasta box! This week, we finished our Non-Fiction writing piece. It was fun to gather all of the information. I can’t wait to see what all of the kids wrote about! I bet that all of us (students) thought that research was boring before we started. When we actually started researching, I think that all the kids got even more interested in the topic that they picked. It was really fun to search for books and on the internet for our topics. I (Alexa)had a bunch of fun going on the internet to research more about sloths! I can’t wait to see everyone else's!

On the last day before the winter break, we had our AMAZING PJ day! Since it is the last day of school before break, we got to play dodgeball with Mr.Clayton, Mrs.Clayton’s husband. We also had our second Rock Star Mall! There was a bunch of new stuff and some old stuff at the mall. You can check out what was popular with everyone at the Rock Star Mall by checking Alyssa’s Economist report. I bet Candy was high up on that list! I got 2 pieces of candy! At the end of the day we had our party! We watched A Christmas Carol. While we were watching we got to shop at the mall and drink hot cocoa. We also got to have some yummy treats like special cake pops and we got candy canes and popcorn too! Agent Meaghan and I hope that you have enjoyed our Weekly Update! Sadly, this is the last one. In January, we will have another amazing pair of Agents writing about Mrs.Clayton’s class and what they are doing then! We hope you have a wonderful, wacky, and wondrous Winter Break! Let’s welcome our new student…Alexander! Agent Meaghan and Alexa out!

Thinking Back on Science...

A LOT of learning was done during our Science Unit.  Although we're done with the investigations, there's still just one last bit of learning, and it's an important one.  Tonight's home learning is to reflect on all the thinking and discovering and questioning and learning you've done over the last few months.  In other words, it's time to METACOGNATE!

Here are some questions to get you thinking!

What new skills have you learned?

What did you learn about working together with lab partners/groups?

What worked and what didn't work for you?

What connections did you make?

How was your thinking pushed?

What did you enjoy and why?

Would you have done anything differently?
Favorite experiment?  What made it so gooood?
Least favorite or most difficult?  What did you learn from it?
Was there anything you could've improved on?
Questions you still have unanswered?

Batik Kaleidoscope Artwork

Check out the amazing Batik Kaleidoscope artwork our class created.  I'll bet some of these are going to be gifts for family members over the holidays.  Lucky them!

A Comma Story

What a nice little comma she is.   I hope this story helps some of you that are struggling with where to put those commas!

Rock Star of the Week, Greg!

Greg's Rock Star Wordle

Mychal and Luis' Weekly Update

In a galaxy far far away in Mrs.Clayton’s class, we (Luis and Mychal) will be telling you how our week went. We hope you enjoy our weekly update! It is about multiple of things, those multiple things are: On Monday we had music class, on Tuesday we had a super scary story, on Wednesday we had our Mad Scientist investigation finished and finally our Christalite Methodist Home trip. We hope you enjoy reading this week’s Weekly Update! Enjoy! Monday was pretty awesome. In Music, we practiced our Christmas songs for the Christalite Methodist Home. We are going to sing “Silent Night”, “Jingle Bells”, “Feliz Navidad” and “We Wish you a Merry Christmas”. Our favorite song has to be Feliz Navidad, because it’s short and can be extremely catchy.  We also sung Santa Claus is Coming to Town to Mr. Anderson to help his recording skills. We got to play a poison ball game which is where, there are three balls, two are poison, and the other is the cure for the poison. We pass the ball around while Mr. Anderson plays music. When the music stops who ever has the poison ball is out, whoever has the cure gets to save someone who had the poison ball. That’s all for Music on Monday. Tuesday was fantastic! We had a scary story from Mrs. Brundage! Although I hope everyone wasn't super scared. Secretly, I (Luis) was scared. It was actually pretty obvious that I was scared because I was hiding underneath my friends leg, covering my ears. The cool thing is that my class and Mr. DeMichele's class had a different scary story than everyone else. I loved this scary story because last year I left the classroom because it was so dark! Anyway... Boo! Did I scare you? I hoped you enjoyed how our scary story was like. On our wonderful Wednesday we had Mad Scientist. We also finished our third science investigation. Our third investigation was the Fizz Quiz. Mychal and I had so much fun on this investigation, because we didn’t just see chemical reactions. We learned about atoms, molecules and chemical equations. Mychal and I hope we did really well on our response sheet. That will sadly be all for Wednesday. I hope you all did well on the response sheet! On Thursday we went to the Christalite Methodist Home and made Santa hats for the elder people who live there. I felt like we not only learned a lot but we also got to meet some really nice people who were living there. One of the people even played “Amazing Grace” on his harmonica. We felt this field trip was good to help us that learn giving is just as good receiving. We can’t wait to go back in February! Mychal and I hope you enjoyed our Weekly Update. I hope you enjoyed our fantastic week about: Music, a scary story, Mad Scientist and our field trip. Tune in for the next weekly update. Next week's weekly updaters are: Meaghan and Alexa. Bye!