Classroom News

Science

We had a blast practicing inquiry during our ice balloon experiment. Students were broken up into four tables. Each table had to first decide what temperature of water they were going to put in their bucket. This experiment showed students the importance of teamwork and compromise. As students were ask questions, adults at each table wrote down what the children were saying. At the conclusion of the experiment, we worked on the smart board to move these sticky notes into two columns, either a "Research Question" or  an "Experiment Question."  Our next step would be to look at our research questions (ex: Why does the salt melt the ice?) and find answers! 

Math

This week we have been focusing on showing numbers to 20 on our fingers.  This has helped students understand the concept of teen numbers.  We are working on decomposing a number to tens and ones.  Example: 14 is made of 1 group of ten and 4 ones. 

Important Date:

February 3rd will be our 100th day of school unless there is a snow day between now and then!  Be on the look out for information on the blog and in folders next week about our 100th day celebration.