Candy Cane Experiment

We took vinegar, peppermint extract, and red food coloring and used eye droppers to put it on a plate of baking soda to see what would happen.    It bubbled up and smelled like candy canes.  Then came the grand finale...mentos and coke/diet coke.  Watch the video below of brave Mrs. Larson...sorry it is sideways. 

Landforms and Bodies of Water

We have been studying geography in social studies.  Yesterday we used atlases of different continents and read about the landforms/bodies of water.  Then they worked with partners to draw the continent and label the different landforms and bodies of water. 

Symmetry

Today in math we were reviewing symmetry.  We made symmetrical pictures with pattern blocks and Christmas "symmetrees" with green paint. 

12-12-12

We celebrated the date today at 12:12 p.m. with 12 mini m&m's. 

Each student got 12.  Yum! 

Christmas Program

Wow, that was a beautiful Christmas program last night.  Your children performed so well and sounded great.  Here a couple of pics from the classroom. 

Missing a few kids, but could not miss getting them all looking so nice. 



Busy Friday!

We presented our nonfiction reading groups and did an experiment on force and motion with monster trucks.  Here are some pictures.  Also, Hayden brought his leopard gecko to show the class.  It was really neat! 

Nonfiction Book Clubs

In reading we worked in small groups reading nonfiction texts.  We then met with our group, discussed what we learned and made a poster to teach the class about our topic. 

Bats

Caves

Polar Bears

Storms

Service Learning

We had a wonderful trip to Treemont Retirement Community yesterday.  The kids behaved so well and sang beautifully.  I am going to make a video with all of the pictures and post it later this week. 

Letters to Santa

Today we wrote persuasive letters to Santa to convince him we should be on the "nice" list.  We had to give reasons why as well.  They will be displayed in the hallway and I told them I would also make a copy to mail to Santa for them. 

Reading Nonfiction

Thursday we read some National Geographic for Kids magazines and then met in small groups to talk about what we learned.  We also wrote one thing we learned on a chart. 

We also made cards for the elderly that we will be visiting at Treemont on Monday.  The kids did a great job and made some really nice holiday cards. 



Nonfiction Text

We are reading nonfiction books in Reader's Workshop.  Today we read and then met with our reading partners to talk about something suprising we learned.