Happy Friday! Please add the words "said" and "we" to your child's list of sight words to practice every night. This morning, students wrote a new ending to a story we've been reading all week. It was fun to hear the interesting twists they put on the story. For science, we talked about how matter changes form, from liquid to solid (cake batter to a cake) and from solid to liquid (melted chocolate). We used a hair dryer to melt ice. Students also held ice cubes in their hands and predicted which would melt the fastest, the cube in their hand or the one with the hair dryer pointed at it. We put cups of water outside, marked the water level on the outside of the cup, and hoped the water would freeze. We checked the cups at each recess, but it was not cold enough to freeze the water. In math, students used large paper clips looped together to measure items in the classroom.