Walk-a-thon Moments...

Needless to say, we have fun!!!!

Worm Observations Part 1

Some of our worm observations....  We drew, labeled, measured, and more!  It was kind of tough to get the worms to hold still while measuring.  Some of the worms were full of energy.  After we observed, the worms were finally put into our compost bin.  Monday or Tuesday we will be doing round two with the other half of the class.  To be continued...

Goodbye Banana Breakdown

We had alot of fun with our banana's but it was about time to get rid of them!  It was very interesting to see what happened to each groups bananas with the different variables.  Ask your child what happened to their groups bananas?!

Recycled Goods

Our class really good into the STEM challenge of bringing in recycled goods!!!  We sorted our goods and counted to make a bar graph which we have also been learning about in math. 

As we are learning about conservation, our class created a powerpoint presentation that I can try to download tomorrow and post.  In the powerpoint, we asked Mrs. Martindale about our idea of how we would like to reuse our straws and sporks from breakfast. 

First, we talked about how to get Mrs. Martindale to come into our classroom to see our presentation.  The class decided to make an invitation to give her time periods and days when we were available to see if she could meet with us during any of those times.  Then we talked about how to get this invitation to her so we took the large piece of chart paper and make it into a paper airplane for, "air mail."  Mrs. Martindale loved it and returned her rsvp in the form of air mail as well. 

Finally, she met with us and was very impressed with the powerpoint presentation.  She said that were allowed to wash the straws and sporks like we had been doing and "repurpose" them by continuing to give to Mrs. G in the innovation station.  Then the suggestion was also made that we could wash the sporks and straws and use them by ourselves, not each other, if they are put into a baggie just for the week and then we recycle them not throw them out.  Apparently, they also wanted to do this at lunch because I heard from another teacher that there were students that asking to use the restroom to wash their straws and put them in their baggies to reuse throughout the week.  I think that this whole experience has been awesome!!  I know that some of you have seen at home the excessive reusing of some things at home.  I'm sorry but it is bettering the environment!!! 

Look for the powerpoint to be posted soon!!!

banana breakdown

 

 

This week we made our first observations from the banana breakdown experiment that we began last week. There were several different groups to see how the bananas changed with different variables; water, air, light, dirt, and a control bag. It has been interesting for all of us to see the changes that have been made. One more week of observations to go...

 

 

Garbology in Action

We had a great time sorting some trash!!!  Our next step is to calculate the data and figure out a way to conserve the amount of waste that we take to our landfills every day.  It's pretty scary actually!

Banana Breakdown Day #1

 Today we created our groups, began to make group names and posters based on our variables, and made up our variable bags.  In banana breakdown we are going to be observing decomposition.  One group has a peel with water, a peel with holes in it for air, a peel with dirt, a peel that will be exposed to sunlight, and then there is the control peel.  For the next two weeks, we will be making observations and reporting out.  We're soooo excited! 

All "Appout" Me

These pictures are from last week but I loved this writing piece as we were trying to getting to know one another.  The kids were given a prewriting (brainstorming) paper that looked like an iphone.  All of the "Apps" were the pieces that were all about them.  They loved it and I when I modeled my writing they learned something unique about me as well.  Ask them to see if they remember what was really different about me?  Anyway, here are some fun pics of our kiddos writing away!

Flocabulary Unit 1

Check us out!  We are loving our Flocabulary!  There is an optional Flocabulary crossword that came home today and then the lyrics are on there too if you want to check out what they are singing, lol! 

http://youtu.be/1mapPWiSSEQ

learning links change

There has been a change in our learning links schedule.  We now have health and wellness on Monday's and Music on Tuesday's.