My hair doesn't look crazy in the group picture, but I had a spider in it. Two of his legs fell out, though! The teachers like Sprit Week just as much as the kids!
Unfortunately our materials to study magnets have not come in yet. Thus we will have to learn about magnets a bit later in the year. We will be starting our social studies unit on past and present a week earlier than I had originally planned.
Today we reviewed everything we have learned thus far. Then we continued to add new learnings and discoveries. We learned that friction is a force that is created whenever two surfaces move or try to move across each other. Friction slows down or stops an object. The students then became engineers! They worked in partnerships to problem solve and design. Their challenge was: design a ramp that slows a ball down. The ball was only allowed to be pushed by gravity (we were not allowed to give the ball an extra push or blow on it, for example). Students first brainstormed and then drew their designs on paper. As students started building, it was amazing to watch! They continually had to problem-solve and re-think their work. They also had to figure out how to compromise and work as a team. I am so proud of how well they worked as scientists!
On Wednesday we had a lot of fun in literacy! With our unit on informational text, we have been focusing a lot on main idea and details. It can be easy to confuse the topic with the main idea. To help kids see the difference we did a fun activity where each partnership was given a bag with 4 related items inside. They had to then work together to come up with the topic AND the main idea. The items were the details to support the main idea. For example, in one bag there was: a paintbrush, a water cup, paint, and paper. This group decided that the topic was art and the main idea was: materials you use when painting. Such a great job done by all!
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