Bible Study: In our Bible study lessons we have been learning about the miracles of Jesus. We just finished reading about Jesus walking on the water, and Peter following Him. As long as Peter kept his eyes on Jesus, he could walk on water. As soon as he started thinking about himself, he began to sink. We also need to remember to always keep our eyes on Jesus, so we too can “walk on water”. We need to remember as soon as we take our eyes off Him, we sink in our earthly troubles.

Math: The third graders are learning how to multiply. It is so fun to have them be excited when they get to do another multiplication times test. They are getting super fast! The third grade is also learning about finding the perimeter and area of a shape. The fourth graders are doing long division. It may look long on our paper, but we are getting pretty fast. We use graph paper to help us line all the numbers up correctly. The fifth grade class is learning about decimals and fractions.

Science: We have started a new unit on plants. We are learning about photosynthesis. We are also learning some big words about how plants grow: hydrotropism, phototropism, thigmotropism, and geotropism. Ask us what these words mean!

English: We just finished up a big unit on adjectives. We are pretty good at describing things now.

Social Studies: We are studying the Revolutionary War, and the causes leading up to the big fight. We learned the colonists did not like taxes (just like many say about their parents). We realize the difference is that the colonists were fighting against taxation without representation, whereas our parents get to vote and have a say in our government.

As you can tell, we have been super
busy in class. But, we were
even able to squeeze in a
trip to the Bahamas as we
are all getting tired of the
long winter. We wore
beach attire, and
enjoyed juicing apples
and making an orange
Julius to drink.

Does anyone like ice cream? Our class spent a lot of time enjoying ice cream on Friday.

In English class we have been studying adjectives. We each wrote a descriptive paragraph using many adjectives, to tell about our favorite flavor of ice cream. For art, we drew a picture of our favorite ice cream. Some included cones; others drew their ice cream in a bowl. Our paragraphs and pictures are hanging on the wall by our classroom. Come read them!

In the afternoon, we made ice cream in a bag. Before we could do that, we had to do some math, so our teacher would know the amount of each ingredient to purchase. We had to convert our single recipe into the total needed for our whole class.

For our final, fun, (and yummy) activity, we put our ingredients into a small bag. We sealed the bag, and just to make sure no salt got into it, closed it up with duct tape. We put the small bag into a large bag which was filled with snow and salt. After we sealed that bag up, we got to toss our bag around the room, until it turned into ice cream. We decided our vanilla ice cream tasted pretty good, and it was fresh from the bag!

This is what you need, if you want to try it at home:
Put these ingredients into a small bag:
1 Tablespoon sugar
½ cup half and half
¼ teaspoon vanilla

Seal the bag, and place into a gallon
sized bag half filled with ice or snow,
and add six tablespoons rock salt.

Shake, toss, or move the bag for 5-10 minutes. Enjoy some fresh ice cream! Mrs. Becker