Sunday, September 29, 2013
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Roller Coasters: Demonstration of Force and Motion
Today we held our roller coaster inspections and
demonstrations. Each group built a roller coaster to demonstrate force, change
in speed, gravity, inertia, potential energy, kinetic energy, and passenger
safety. As you can see from the pictures, the kids had a lot of fun and use
their creativity to build some pretty awesome roller coasters. I think they
have a future in the theme park industry! Unfortunately, a few of our members
from a couple of our construction crews had to leave early. However they were
key members of the design and development!
Monday, September 23, 2013
Audio Books
This year we will work on developing our comprehension as
readers, but also our reading fluency. This allows kids to practice the way
they sound as they read by connecting words into phrases and sentences. One way
do this is modeling how fluent readers read. I wanted to share with you a
resource that is FREE to you and might be something your child would be
interested in trying.
The link below is to the Mid-Continent Public Library’s
Database for digital and online books. Books can be “loaned” out to your
electronic device for a period of time and will be automatically removed at the
end of the check out time. Listening to text can be very effective in improving
reading fluency, but following along with the text would be even better! While some
of the newer titles are not yet available on Overdrive, there are lots of
titles on the fourth grade reading level for your child to explore. Many of
these titles would also be available at the Mid-Continent or even our school
library.
If you child chooses to try this out, they are welcome to
bring their MP3 player or iPod to school along with the actual book. They can
listen and follow along with the text by listening through their personal
headphones. While this is NOT a requirement for our reader’s workshop at all, I
am only sharing this to you if you would like to try something different! If
you do try this at home, please keep me updated on how it goes!
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Friday, September 20, 2013
Science Buddies!
Today we helped our kindergarten friends from Mrs. Kirn's class perform an experiment while practicing our own science skills. The kindergartners predicted which side of the penny, heads or tails, would hold the most drops of water. We are looking forward to more experiments this year with our friends.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
We are SCIENTISTS!!!
Our video has been updated to feature all our scientists.
We had a few friends missing from the original!
Enjoy!
Twiehaus Trailer
I shared this during curriculum night and embedded it into my presentation I posted on our blog. The kids enjoy watching it so much that I wanted them to have easy access! Enjoy!
**Please note this is an "unlisted" video and is not searchable on YouTube.
**Please note this is an "unlisted" video and is not searchable on YouTube.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
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