Parent Orientation 2015 – 16
Many thanks to everyone who was able to make it to Parent Orientation. It was quick and painless, I hope!! For those of you who missed it, Here is the link to our PDF. Enjoy If you have any...
View ArticleOur First Day
This was our first day of school. What an adventure this year will be. They have so much spunk and personality, as you can see in the pictures.
View ArticleDissolving Skittles
Do Skittles dissolve faster in cold or hot water? This was a fantastic experiment to help with learning about the Scientific Method. Look at the intense concentration and excitement in their faces...
View ArticleTeam Work Activity
Today we gave the students a challenge of stacking red cups into a pyramid. There were only a few rules: You cannot touch the cups with your hands. You have to work together. You can only use the...
View ArticleFloat Your Boat
Can you make a boat that can hold at least 70 pennies? YES WE CAN! Our whole class was successful. Our best boat held 400 pennies.
View ArticleGetting To Know Us – Skittle Style
Today we learned even more about each other. Every child chose 10 skittles of any color. Each color of skittle meant something that the students had to share. For example: red skittle – what do you...
View ArticleTeam Work – Pyramid Building
Today the students were given the challenge to build a pyramid with cups. Pretty easy, right? Well the hard part of the challenge was they couldn’t use their hands to touch the cups. They were given...
View ArticleCommonalities Cards
All week, our class has been working together in their table groups to find all the things they have in common. Each time they found a commonality that they all shared, they could write it down on an...
View ArticleTurf and Table – Properties of Matter
Today we began our unit on Properties of Matter. The students were given a ping pong ball and a golf ball. We talked about that they thought the term observable meant and added that word to our word...
View ArticleScientific Method – The tootsie pop!
This activity had me in stitches. We have been working on the Scientific Method and the steps that scientists use when conducting experiments. We decided to conduct an experiment of our very own....
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