Hello everyone!
I hope everyone enjoyed their snow day and long weekend! It was nice to be able to go outside for recess again for the first time today - although the playground is surrounded by snow, our blacktop play area has been cleared off, so the students can run around at recess time!
I wanted to let you know that although your student hasn't been bringing any Social Studies papers home for the past couple of weeks, we ARE studying that subject at school! As we do more and more of our activities online and as hands-on projects, it sometimes means that there aren't as many papers coming home. Many of these activities are graded, however, and you can always check their grades at any time on PowerSchool. We have been creating Kansas objects lately in social studies, and we have created models of sod houses, covered wagons, tepees, and buffaloes. All of these objects are currently on the walls of our classroom and hallway, but they will be coming home soon! I'm planning to post some photos of our creations on Thursday.
Also, I got some interesting information about an opportunity for Wednesday, February 3 - the International Space Station's line of orbit will pass directly over our area for one pass, and we will be able to see it clearly if the skies are clear. It will pass for a 5-minute time span, from 7:13 - 7:18, traveling from SW to NE. My family got to see it the last time it's orbit crossed our path in an evening, a few weeks ago, and it was pretty interesting - it looks like a larger airplane light traveling across the sky! Isn't it amazing to think that we have astronauts living on the Space Station and that we can see their home from our yards!
Mrs. Goertzen
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