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Last week we had our Pajama Day Party!  

We spent much of the day snuggling up with warm jammies, good books and better friends.  

Notice our fireplace in the background,   ooOoh. 

We had a class full of stuffed animals as well.  How fun it was to share these with the class.  

It was a blast but we realized the need for closer monitoring when Jacob's stuffed animal slithered away and started eating Joshua's snack.  Oh no, not the strawberries!
 
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Here are some students sorting solids and liquids properties in anticipation for our end of unit assessment.

We are now two weeks into our 

 
Over February break, Mr. Lind visited with Mr. Franks' family down in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands.

Here we are checking out the Roseway Schooner which is stationed in STX through the winter, but resides in Boston for the summers.  Our middle school students at NHCS make a yearly trip to visit the Roseway when it's in town.
 
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After hours of preparation and a huge amount of support from our parents, the first grade's Tall Tale Living Museum was an enormous success.  

A special thanks to Ms. Olmsted and Ms. Hood for helping the first graders with prop preparations, and thanks to all those who joined us for the fabulous event!
 
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We have been decorating invitations to our Tall Tale Living Museum (notice picture below).  


All are welcome to attend this informational and celebrational ending to our end of unit Living Museum.

 
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Some students were quite interested in Bigfoot. Others, a little scared.
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They had lots of interesting things to look at and touch. Here is a box of dead butterflies.
826 Boston or, The Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute is a not-for-profit local writing center.  

Today our class visited both their research center (see bigfoot and butterfly pictures) as well as their writing center. 


Collectively our class wrote a story together with the superb help of their friendly and knowledgeable staff.

We gave the field trip an A+
 
In preparation for our Tall Tale Living Museum we began thinking about costume props today.

Here a group of ladies think about what they'll need for their Sally-Ann-Thunder-Ann-Whirlwind-Crockett costumes.
 
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To conclude our tall tales unit we're planning a tall tale living museum.  

Our first order of business was to choose characters for our museum and then draw pictures to help plan our costumes.

Stay tuned for updates on the progress of our Tall Tale Living Museum.

 
The kids sang this at town meeting on Friday.  We were very proud, to say the least.
 

A wonderful song sung a few weeks ago by our class at town meeting!