Decking the Halls with canned foods!

A HUGE thanks to all of my third grade friends who have brought canned foods in. The halls look oh so pretty with all of our canned goods and food items lined up! If you haven't brought any cans in, there's still some time! The CE food drive ends Thursday, December 17th. Last year, CE was able to donate over 6,000 items, which was over 9,000 lbs of food--How incredible is that?! I know we can surpass that goal.

Winter Party Fun!
Our winter party is next Friday, December 18th from 1:30-2:15. A big thanks to Mrs. Harrell for volunteering to lead the party. If you have signed up to help, you should be hearing details son. If you have any questions regarding the party, you can email her at nicoleharrell@hotmail.com

It's going to be a fun week next week leading up to Winter Break. The class has been working hard on something very special! ;) Have a great weekend!

The kids had so much fun this week as we began our SOUND unit in science.They've been taking part in several investigations that are keeping them very curious about sound! We started the unit by discussing the properties of sound, discriminating between sounds to create secret codes, and learning how vibrations cause sound. In another investigation, students experimented with a door fiddle and tone generator and  learned that different vibrations produce different pitches of sounds. They also got to use a waterphone, xylophone, kalimba, and string beam to look at how length affects pitch. This morning we read about different animals and their unusual sound sources.  Ask your child....

• How is sound created?
• What are some examples of sound sources? sound receivers?
• What happens to the pitch and vibrations when the length of the sound source changes?
• Name and describe some unusual animal sound sources.