Sep 27 2012
Save the Date for our Fall Carnival!
November 16th 6-8pm
crafts, food, face painting, games,silent auction
Please also let us know if you can volunteer for a 30 minute shift, donate a silent auction item, or connect us with vendors for pizza, plates, and small prizes.
We can’t wait to see you there!
Sep 26 2012
This week, we have been practicing collecting data and displaying it in various ways. We made a bar graph that showed how many students have lost a specific number of teeth. Each child was so engaged by this activity that we decided to try surveying other classes to collect information that we could graph.
Together, we created a data collection sheet to take to each class we visited so we knew exactly what to ask and could organize our findings! Today, we went in groups of four with a Butler teacher to each class room to ask these students about their teeth. We were very brave as we spoke in front of so many new faces and they were wonderful listeners!
Tomorrow, we will explore other ways to display this information visually to compare the number of teeth that have been lost in each room!
Sep 25 2012
Today, we continued our study of teeth and the mouth by making a healthy snack that looked like a mouth! We used apples, honey sticks, and marshmallows to create this smile and students loved experimenting with different teeth formations and pulling their marshmallow teeth like a real dentist! What a great way to reinforce the ideas we have been studying, while eating something new to us!
Christian’s smile
One friend constructing their smile
Nathan replacing his own teeth with marshmallows
Sep 25 2012
Last week, some of the students were wondering if our colored water from painting with watercolors would change the temperature of the water. Today I asked the students: Does color affect temperature? Many of our friends explored the water before we added food coloring. They recorded the temperature of the water in their science notebooks. The conversations between peers included showing each other the difference between Celsius and Fahrenheit and challenging each others’ thoughts on what temperature the water was. In morning meeting everyone used their science notebooks and we discussed theories about how the food coloring would affect the water’s temperature. Many students agreed that it depended on the temperature of the food coloring while some thought certain colors would change the temperature more than other colors. We explored the food dye and realized at the end that we need to come up with some agreements for our science explorations. Some ideas that the students have already include taking care of the science tools and taking turns with the materials and being careful with the exploration. For example, students realized putting our hands in the water may change the temperature. We will continue to explore the idea of science agreements this week!
Sep 25 2012
Tylisha and Selam doing boat pose.
Raki and Dorothy doing the open heart pose.
Maxwell and Miles doing the boat pose.
A part of our day every day is yoga. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday the kids go to Mrs. William’s classroom for yoga. On Mondays and Tuesdays we do it in our classroom together. Today, we worked on some of the things that Mrs. Williams taught us last week. We reviewed our partner poses; boat, open heart, and see saw. I was so proud of the way the kids were able to work together and get along with on another. Even if someone messed up it wasn’t a big deal and they could try again. I love how our community is working together!
