Last Week - Writing Celebration and Buddies!

Last Friday we celebrated our informational books!

We also met with our Kindergarten buddies! We taught them about habit #4 of the leader in me!

Science - Exploring Evaporation

Today we did an experiment to explore evaporation! We investigated the role water temperature plays in the rate of evaporation! We compared cold water, room temperature water, and hot water!

Ask your student about our findings!

Happy New Year!

Welcome back! It seemed that students were happy to return to school today especially after four snow days making for an extended winter break! We started our day sharing our winter break fun with others!

Then we reviewed the importance of reading to self each day! Students did a fantastic job and showed no loss of stamina! Yippee! In writing, we got back to our informational pieces and met with our writing partners for a final edit. Publishing starts Monday!

In math, we did some review of time and patterns and jumped into probability!

Key vocabulary: certain, likely, unlikely, impossible

What is the probability of spinning an odd number? -certain

What is the probability of spinning a number greater than 20? -likely

What is the probability of spinning number 51? -unlikely

What is the probability of spinning a 3-digit number? -impossible

You can practice with your student by making your own spinner at home and/or using colored paper squares in a bag, etc. Have fun!

We finished our day with a fun New Year resolution activity! Ask your student about his/hers!

Finally, we can't wait to start science on Monday! 2014 is here, and we are excited about the second semester!