This was such a great week in our class! (I was very excited to be here and pretty much healthy for 5 days in a row!)
In honor of the Read-a-thon we wrote a class letter to the author of the read aloud we recently finished, Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera and Bill Cleaver. Together we brainstormed compliments for them, questions to ask about their writing, and requests for a sequel. After completing the class letter students planned and constructed letters to their own favorite authors. It is always a joy to see them supper excited, and many of them were very engaged and enthusiastic to extend the book in this way.
We also enjoyed some hands on (or more like EYES on) adventures during science time. To review properties of matter, we observed how food coloring mixed in hot, room temperature, and cold water. We began by discussing the importance of observing and predicting and how they would use the processes in the same way a 'real' scientist would. This lab demonstrated that molecules are in motion, and they move faster in warm temperatures, a little slower in room temperature and very slowly in cold temperatures.
We also watched this cool video about the phases of matter:
*please complete and return the blue conference sign up sheet that was sent home with your child's interim report
*keep reading/recording minutes for the read-a-thon this weekend
