How Wind and Water Can Change The Shape Of The Land

Last week, we began discussing what erosion means. The students started with an experiment that demonstrated how wind can change the shape of the land by blowing onto a sand hill.

Today, the students did an experiment that demonstrated how water can change the shape of the land. The students used a dropper and sprinkled water droplets over their sand mountain. Then they quickly squeezed out water from their dropper onto their mountain. The results were very different. Ask your child about what happened and ask them which trial was supposed to act like rain sprinkles and which trial was supposed to be like a rainstorm. 

Reading Biographies

We have been learning about biographies. We have compared them to both fiction and other non-fiction texts to learn about the similarities and differences that biographies have with these types of texts. We have learned about many people and the accomplishments that they had during their lifetime. We noticed that most biographies include: important dates, places and significant events.

Reminder: We will be skating on March 28th

This is just a reminder that we will be skating again on Thursday. All classes will walk to and from the high school on the day they have health class.  Parents are invited to walk with their child’s class and help tie laces at the rink.  Please make sure you have registered as a volunteer.
For the safety reasons, all children are required to wear helmets, snow pants and gloves when on the ice. We will leave Summit at 12:40, skate from 1:00 - 2:00 and depart EHS 2:15.

A parent captured the fun that the kids had, last week, so perfectly!

A Note From the PTO About The Pancake Breakfast and Auction

Join us Saturday March 30th from 8:30-10:30am for pancakes and a silent auction!! Please sign up to donate if you are able. Contact Karen if you have any questions - khergesh@hotmail.com Non-perishable items can be delivered to the front office on March 29th. Please bring all other items the morning of March 30th.

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On Thursday, March 28th the second graders will be sharing at assembly. It starts at 8:00. They will be presenting information on biomes. For their presentation, we are asking that students try to wear a color that represents their biome. Please do not go out and buy anything :) See below:

• Aquatic = Blue
• Forest = Green
• Rainforest = Red
• Savannah/Grassland = Orange
• Desert = Yellow

  

It's Skating Time!

All PE classes will be going ice skating at EHS.  Each class will get to go to the rink twice. Please see the schedule below so you know which day your child will be skating. All classes will walk to and from the high school on the day they have health class.  Parents are invited to walk with their child’s class and help tie laces at the rink.  Please make sure you have registered as a volunteer.
For the safety reasons, all children are required to wear helmets, snowpants and gloves when on the ice.   We have a limited number of helmets available for those who do not own one, please let Mrs. Hutton know you need to borrow one.  There are skates for students and adults at the rink, however if you have your own skates you are encouraged to bring those.  If you need further information contact Mrs. Hutton at 857-7667 or rhutton@ewsd.org.  

Our class will be skating on 3/21 and 3/28. We will leave Summit at 12:40, skate from 1:00 - 2:00 and depart EHS 2:15.

Writing About Reading

We have started a new writing unit in Writing Workshop. It is called, "Writing About Reading." Throughout this unit, the students will focus on writing letters about the books they have read, listened to and remember. They will learn how to state various opinions that they have and use support from the stories to defend their statements. I have been thrilled to see them working so hard and staying very focused!