New year means a fresh start. Today we discussed what resolutions we wanted to set for the new year to help ourselves or help other people. … [Read more...] about New Years Resolutions
STEM for the Holidays
Ms. Hetzel and Mrs. Podolanczuk's class created a holiday STEM craft with the help of class parent, Mr. Patel. The students made snowmen, complete with light up "buttons". … [Read more...] about STEM for the Holidays
Holiday Spirit Days
December 18 - Pajama Day December 19 - Holiday Hats December 20 - Wear Holiday Colors - Red, Green, Blue and/or White … [Read more...] about Holiday Spirit Days
Hour of Code
Third graders in Ms. Hetzel & Mrs. Podolanczuk’s class learned basic coding and participated in the Hour of Code. … [Read more...] about Hour of Code
Snow Math
Recently, students in Ms. Hetzel and Mrs. Podolanczuk's 3rd grade class had an exciting time creating "Snow Math" using the knowledge they acquired with a beginning unit on Multiplication. After choosing a multiplication sentence to "illustrate", students then used cotton balls to create the factors and arranged them in arrays on a winter mitten that was posted on a Bulletin Board outside their classroom. … [Read more...] about Snow Math