A Virtual Water Cycle

Check out this fun interactive virtual water cycle!  Click on rain, water storage, vapor, and clouds to see each part of the water cycle in motion!

Water Cycle Interactive

Briedwell Bulletin: PACT Community Engagement

Briedwell Bulletin: PACT Community Engagement: "February 7th and 14th from 6:00-8:00 are the Lake Contrary PACT building tours. Please join us! Next week will also be a community wide PA..."

Reminders!

Important upcoming dates:


Tutoring this Monday and Wednesday, February 14th and 16th!

Tutoring is from 3:45-4:45.

February 14th Class Valentine Party

2:00 in our classroom- feel free to send pre-packaged treats or cards to school! Students brought home a list of students for addressing Valentine cards.  We have 17 students in our class.

February 14th  PACT Building-Level Meetings at Lake Contrary

Meeting will be from 6:00-8:30, and all staff, area residents, and parents are invited to participate!

To see what we are currently learning in each subject, so you can help support your child at home, don't forget to check out our "Take A Peek at our Week" section (the tab at the top of this page).

Using Money

We have been working hard this week on using money.  We all like to spend it, but there's a lot to know about using money to make purchases or make change.  This is a critical life skill that we all have to master to be successful!  A great activity to do at home to help support our learning is to play "shopkeeper".  Assign prices to a few items around your house, and let your child practice making purchases with coins and bills.  You could even trade roles, and let your child practice making change as you make purchases.

There are also a number of online games specifically for using coins.  Here's another fun game for us to practice counting money! Money Games at ToonUniversity.com

Have fun exploring all that money!  :)

Reminders!

Don't forget to check the "Upcoming Events" page often for updates!  Here are some recently added dates!

February 8th     Spring Pictures (order forms went home Friday!)

February 11th     ABC Assembly  2:30-3:00  RESCHEDULED FOR A LATER DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED

Introducing...Measurement!

Our class is beginning to learn all about measurement in our Math Workshop.  Measurement incorporates a lot of different components, so here is a breakdown of our unit and some resources you can use at home to help you support your child's learning! 

We will...

• use different tools of measurement to label length and width of objects and make reasonable estimates about size- Funbrain Measuring Inches & Centimeters (a fun game to practice measuring centimeters/inches),  PBS Kids Measurement Games (this site has LOTS of games to practice all different units of measure) 
• identify time on an analog clock to the nearest five minutes-  How to Tell Time (a sort of "lesson plan" for parents, including attached resources and step-by-step directions)
• compute using money by adding amounts together and calculating change back from $5.00- Cash Register (another math game- choose $1.00 or $5.00 and then click on the American flag to get started!)

Have fun measuring all kinds of "stuff"! Time...money...and all kinds of objects!!!