Coming VERY soon..... Student Blogging!

The students are busy working on their own blog. We are using a student safe blogging site that is only for our class. This is a great resource for the students to increase their typing skills while working on writing. The kids have been begging to do it. It is a fun and different way for them to expressing their ideas. I will have the links send out to you as soon as possible so you can enjoy their blogs as well.

Snack Calendar

Be sure to check out the April snack calendar!!

CGI Math- Money/Telling Time

We have been working very hard on counting money and learning how to tell time. I was so impressed with the kids. They have done a fabulous job. One activity that we did with telling time was elapsed time. I don't tell the kids what elapsed time is or tell them how to solve it. I just gave them the following problem. Moriah woke up at _____. What time will it be in ____ minutes. The kids had different number choices to pick from depending on their level. I had every student solve this problem correctly. The number choices were (8:00, 30) (8:30: 15) (8:25, 30) (8:25, 52). Almost half of the kids chose 8:25 and 52 minutes later. Some just added the 25+52 and converted that to time while other students used the clocks we have available and added the necessary minutes to the time. It was so powerful and neat to see the kids do it!! I am also so impressed and proud of their thinking!

Art Center Visit

We went to the Art Center to see the Dickinson County All Schools Art Show! Wow did we see some very neat projects. We have some very artist and talented kids in Dickinson County!

Rocks

We are learning about rocks!
Charles came to talk to use about the rock cycle.

We learned there are three types of rocks. We used food to learn the different types. To learn how Igneous rocks are made we melted chocolate and then let it harden in a different shape. To learn about metamorphic rocks we had gum drops. Then we used heat, time and pressure to melt the gum drops into a different shape. The final type of rock is sedimentary. We make a sedimentary cake. It had many different layers! They were all very delicious "rocks"!

Here is the metamorphic rock.

Here is our sedimentary cake.

We also make rocks out of Legos. We worked as a team to create a rock made up of different minerals.

We also checked to see if our own rocks would sink or float in water. After testing, we found out that all the rocks we found sink.

St. Patrick's Day

We enjoyed green popcorn balls while writing St. Patrick's Day stories!

Purple Pancakes

For Dr. Seuss' Birthday we wrote our own poem called Purple Pancakes and Bologna and then tried Purple Pancakes and Bologna. It was surprised, most really like it!!