#WearYellowForSeth

**UPDATE**
Check out our photos from today here.
We had our ENTIRE school wearing yellow to support Seth. That's nine classrooms, about 125 kids and almost 20 teachers! Our class made cards and pictures for Seth to show him that we are his friends and we care about him.

Dear families,

        Continuing our lessons on kindness and compassion for others, we would like to let you know about a story about a 5-year-old boy named Seth. Seth has Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (Which means he has no immune system, often referred to as Bubble Boy Disease) and must live every day in a hospital room.

Seth’s family has asked the world to show their support for this brave little boy before his second bone marrow transplant by wearing yellow, his favorite color.

We are hoping that all of the students AND families in our class, and the entire school, will wear yellow to show their support on Friday, March 27th.

BE CREATIVE! Yellow shirt, pants, socks, shoes, scarves, headband, jewelry, or paint your faces yellow! Let's make Seth laugh!

We will be taking a picture and sending it to his family so they can print them out and hang them in Seth’s hospital room for support. You can take your own and upload it to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by hashtagging #WearYellowForSeth

Learn more about Seth at – www.OurLittleHero.wordpress.com

Watch Seth’s video at https://youtu.be/4tlTZSGhi-g

The students are SO excited to make Seth feel happy and supported, they even suggested we paint our new tree house yellow for him.

Let’s make this little boy smile!

Thank you for your support!

Design and Engineering Introduction

We have begun our unit on all things construction, Design and Engineering. In this unit we have and will talk about buildings, constructing, tools, materials, famous structures, stability, and many other facets of design and engineering.

We wanted to begin with a fun activity to get them used to handling tools. We gave our students real tools. With Valentines Day just passing, we decided to have fun with some left over conversation hearts.

Beginning with safety, we talked about each tool and how they're used. Then we gave them minimal instruction about how to break the candies. We wanted to see what the students did with the tools, how they used them, if they used multiple strategies to solve the problem of breaking the hearts into smaller pieces, the vocabulary they would use and what they would predict.

The hearts were in between two pieces of paper towel so that broken bits didn't fly everywhere.

We used hammers.

We used screwdrivers.

We tried different ways to use the screwdriver.

We even tried breaking them with our hands.

After spending some time with conversation hearts, we tried breaking different types of food; we added M&Ms and chips to our trays.