It is time to get those creative juices going again! Mrs. McBride is offering another opportunity to put your skills to work. Find out more details for this month’s challenge here – Willy Wonka Challenge

Last week you solved problems through playful exploration and trial and error. With TEAMWORK you were able to breakout. Today a door is firmly locked. You will need your problem solving skills to escape once, twice…forty times! Can you escape the mysterious room? And do it again and again and again? Play 40x Escape.

TEAMWORK: According to Dictionary.com, teamwork is the cooperative and coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause.

Your class will be arranged into 8 groups. Each group will be assigned a problem to solve in order to unlock one of the locks. Go to this site – TEAMWORK. Click on the letter in the word “teamwork” that your group is assigned, and the link will take you to the directions of your task.

If your group finishes early, you may help other groups.

What can you do this year to be a great team player? Post your comments.

We conducted our first experiment using raisins and lemon/lime soda. We observed the reaction of the soda on the raisin as it was dropped into the cup and then what the raisin did while in the cup of soda. We learned about floating, buoyancy and oxygenated reactions. This was a kick start to our properties of matter and water units.

Post your knowledge about matter and the 5 senses. Also, about what you learned from the experiment.

It is time to get those creative juices going again! Mrs. McBride is offering another opportunity to put your skills to work. Find out more details for this month’s challenge here:

http://blogs.socsd.org/kmcbride/2016/09/19/pumpkin-challenge/

“In Running With Roselle, kids can follow Roselle as she grows from an energetic yellow Lab prone to stealing her puppy raiser’s slippers to a confident guide dog who passes the ultimate test when her partner needs her most. Meet Mike, a boy blind from birth who excels in public school, shocks the neighbors by riding his bicycle through the streets of Palmdale, CA, drives a car around his college campus, and uses his relationship of trust and teamwork with Roselle to help others on a day that changed America forever.”

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/_iSdmddSlQg?rel=0

Mr. Michael Hingson, author of Running with Roselle, visits Cottage Lane and share his stories of growing up blind and the importance of teamwork.

http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/what-is-braille

http://braillebug.afb.org/thenamegame.asp

http://braillebug.afb.org/games.asp

This year at Cottage Lane we are “wild” about character. Each month we will focus on a trait and a book to build students with great character. Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah wrote 14 Cows for America . One inscription reads, “To all the little children who read this book. You are the peace the world has been waiting for. May you grow to be compassionate diplomats.” You have the ability to make the world and our school a better place.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/-QVhwCHeIX8?rel=0

What can you do this year to heal a sorrowing heart?

April is blue for respect. Cottage Lane’s book of the month, Pinduli, is a surprising story about self-image, self-acceptance, and treating others with respect. After reading, sharing and discussing this special book you will realize how a few tiny words – bad or good – can create something enormous!

Do you think that by hurting someone else’s feelings it made the animals who made Pinduli feel bad, feel better about themselves?