The boys and girls began the day by admiring Ferdinand's meadow of flowers and cork tree. Now he can sit on the hill and just smell the flowers. We added perfume so that we could smell the flowers, too!
The Question of the Day was: Would you like to live on a farm? Morning work was to finish the cards and letters to send to Wagner Farm. In recognition of our cold weather, we read the funny book Fifty Below Zero. Later in the day, we read the book The Snow Beast to settle back into the classroom after P.E. Civics with Mrs. Hensley was the other specials class of the day. Ask your child what they learned about rules and leaders.
The super bonus word on this week's spelling test was meadow. During math we used doubles facts to think about almost doubles problems. For example, if you know 7 + 7 = 14, you can use that knowledge to remember that 7 + 8 = 15.
We ended our unit on matter with an exciting science investigation. Students used measuring cups and followed a "recipe" to create a mixture using water, salt, ammonia, bluing, and food coloring. The Chopsticks of Science came in handy for stirring the materials. Finally, the boys and girls assembled cardboard trees and placed them in their containers. We did not finish doing this until the end of the day, but the students could notice something beginning to happen. I moved the forest to the back table after school. Ask your child to look at the photo below and tell you if he/she notices any other changes that have taken place in the trees. I wonder what the trees will look like on Monday!
Have a wonderful weekend!
The Question of the Day was: Would you like to live on a farm? Morning work was to finish the cards and letters to send to Wagner Farm. In recognition of our cold weather, we read the funny book Fifty Below Zero. Later in the day, we read the book The Snow Beast to settle back into the classroom after P.E. Civics with Mrs. Hensley was the other specials class of the day. Ask your child what they learned about rules and leaders.
The super bonus word on this week's spelling test was meadow. During math we used doubles facts to think about almost doubles problems. For example, if you know 7 + 7 = 14, you can use that knowledge to remember that 7 + 8 = 15.
We ended our unit on matter with an exciting science investigation. Students used measuring cups and followed a "recipe" to create a mixture using water, salt, ammonia, bluing, and food coloring. The Chopsticks of Science came in handy for stirring the materials. Finally, the boys and girls assembled cardboard trees and placed them in their containers. We did not finish doing this until the end of the day, but the students could notice something beginning to happen. I moved the forest to the back table after school. Ask your child to look at the photo below and tell you if he/she notices any other changes that have taken place in the trees. I wonder what the trees will look like on Monday!
Have a wonderful weekend!