Highlights of the Week

Our mental image drawings of The Snagglegrollop from reading workshop time

Our first day of experimenting with cars/ramps.

Our beginning data collection was on carpet in the classroom.

We used measuring tapes to track distances.

The second day we went to the cafeteria to conduct the experiment on the bare floor.

Our hypothesis was that the cars would go farther off the ramps on bare floor.  We turned out to be right!

In math we played Beat The Calculator to help us learn our math facts.

Students each take a role in Beat the Calculator - Brain, Caller and Calculator!

In music we used xylophones.

We worked on the notes and were super responsible about putting them away in their case afterwards.

In math we played "Pick a Coin" on our Chromebooks on the Everyday Math website.  This game helps us practice coin identification and counting money values.

After our first experiment we got in our groups to choose ONE part of the experiment to revise when we do it again next week.  This group is trying out a steeper ramp incline.

Beautiful snowflakes we made in art.

Hard at work drawing mental images from The Napping House by Audrey Wood, an old favorite.

On Friday afternoon we did a big clean inside our desks (and on top!) and we also organized our book baskets.  Such productive, busy helpers!  They offered to come clean at my house and I was tempted to take them up on it!