Game Day!

The Chamberlin Hive was filled last week! Today we had Game Day to celebrate!

Name practice

We practice writing our names everyday!!

Writers' Workshop

Building with blocks

Connecting Readers' Workshop and Explore Time!

One of our favorite familiar books is Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton.  The main character, Mike Mulligan, has a steam shovel named Mary Anne.  He is proud of Mary Anne and "always said that she could dig as much in a day as a hundred men could dig in a week."  As the years passed, steam shovels were replaced with gasoline, electric and Diesel motor shovels.  There wasn't any work left for Mike and Mary Anne until one day they volunteered to dig the cellar of the new town hall in the town of Popperville.  

Today during Explore time, the students used our big bin of wooden blocks to build their own town hall--just like Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne!  I love their creativity and connection to what we are learning in other parts of our day!

Morning Explore Time

Morning Explore Time

Peter Rabbit at the Flynn Theatre

We had a lovely morning at the Flynn Theatre watching Peter Rabbit.  It was a fabulous performance!  

Singing with Ms. Murphy's class

Whole School Cozy Read Aloud

Nurse Farrell read a book called Gracias Thanks by Pat Mora to the whole school this afternoon.  We enjoyed listening to her read while looking at the pictures and eating a snack.  

November Book Orders

If you would like to order anything from the November book order, please send your order form with cash or a check made payable to Scholastic Book Clubs to school with your child on Friday, 11/18 or bring it to our parent/teacher conference next week.  You may also place your order online at https://clubs.scholastic.com/ and use the code HMZ8W.  Thank you!

Thanksgiving turkeys

We made Thanksgiving turkeys today! 

Look for our finished products in backpacks on Friday!

Spirit Week!

It was Color Day at Chamberlin today!

Tuesday will be Sports Day, Wednesday will be Mismatched Day, Thursday will be Flannel Day, and Friday will be South Burlington Blue and Gray Day!  We are excited for a fun week!

Exploring items from long ago

We loved looking at kitchen items from long ago. Thank you to the Sheldon Museum for letting us borrow all these artifacts!

Partner Reading

Partner reading is one of our favorite parts of Readers' Workshop!  This week we learned about "WOW! pages" and shared these pages with our reading partner.  When partner reading, we sit side-by-side with one book in the middle.  We take turns reading and reread to learn more!

We have filled the Chamberlin Bee Hive!!  We will be having our school-wide celebration tomorrow (11/9).  It is crazy hair or hat day!  We are looking forward to seeing all of the creative hairdos and fun hats! 

  

Our 2nd Farm to School lesson

This afternoon we had our second Farm to School lesson with Ms. Jennifer Sutton and Natalie, a UVM student.  We learned that there are many different types of kale including Dinosaur Kale!  After listening to a story, the class made kale pesto.  Each student had an important role in the creation of this delicious snack!

Washing, drying and cutting up the kale

Cutting and measuring the kale

Preparing and measuring the rest of the ingredients

Ready for the taste test

Kale Pesto...YUM!

Bread and Butter Farm

Thank you to Farmer Corie for a fabulous trip to the Bread and Butter Farm!  We visited the cows and cats with Farmer Henry and joined the pigs in their pen with Farmer Corie.  We tasted yummy vegetables in the greenhouse with Farmer Becca.  We all had a blast at the farm!

Look what we learned about bats!

Food Play!

Today we enjoyed a presentation of Food Play.  The students LOVED the performance and learned a lot about healthy food choices.  We were most surprised to learn how much sugar there is in soda.  Special thanks to Hannaford supermarkets for bringing this wonderful presentation to Chamberlin School!

Halloween Party

Happy Halloween!

Thank you to all of our families for contributing to and helping out at our Halloween party! 🎃

We had a fun time doing a skeleton scavenger hunt!