Culture

We spent most of April talking about culture. We talked about what culture meant - about the traditions and meanings behind them. Many of you went out of your way to share your families culture with your child and they throughly enjoyed sharing this information with their classmates. After gaining some back ground knowledge from our Social Studies book each child was assigned a partner and country to research and write about - What fun they had! They spent some time in the computer lab research and not a many minutes went by where I didn't hear, "Mrs. Mabe look what we found out!" For some students this was their first experience with an anything to do with a culture other then theirs and what a treat it was for them!

                          Sharing about their culture!

                              Building our Background Knowledge

 

 Using their notes write rough drafts...then they were edited and then final copies were written in their culture books!

2-d shapes and 3-d shapes, Oh My!

After we returned from Spring Break we spent some time working on 2-d and 3-d shapes. We learned about their names, attributes and in the process learned LOTS of new vocabulary. Vertex, angle, edge, line, side, face, corner, equilateral, quadrilateral...

             working with shapes to make new shapes

 time to make 3-d shapes....their creative juices were definitely flowing...

I love how they worked together to make sure everyone had a part in building, making and creating! You can see how much fun they were having - all while LEARNING! That makes my teacher heart happy :)

Wrapping up the quarter - Addition Sundaes and Easter!

We ended the quarter with lots of hard work and many assessments however, in the middle of all that work we managed to have some fun. For 9 days the students took timed addition tests to see how big they could make their ice cream sundae - this was serious business and their favorite minute of the day! We also did some Easter reading and Jelly Bean Math before we left for Spring Break - take a look!! (pics are in backwards order :) )

                               Jelly Bean Math

                                count...sort...graph...solve AND eat

                      Reading together...

The blank board ready for names...

 ....nine days later!

                    Every one was able to have ice cream and they LOVED it!

                           Great way to end 3rd Quarter!!!

What's the 'Matter'?

We spent quite a bit of time studying about Matter this quarter. We learned about the different states of matter and how to change the states of certain things. To do this we did some reading, watched some videos but most importantly did quite a few experiments. Take a look at what all we did and learned!

             Making Butter - liquid to solid

          shake...

 ...tadah...Butter!

 sorting pictures by the state of they matter that they are

 Melting ice - with our body heat...solid to liquid

 melting chocolate with heat - solid to liquid

 observing the changes

 YUMMY!!

 It is makes science extra fun when it turns into a snack!!!

 Finding examples of the different states of matter in magazines.

 Making popsicles - freezing juice....liquid to solid

 making predictions

 putting the liquid into the freezer

 done! time to eat :)

 human matter molecules

 gas

 liquid

 solid

 making representations of molecules in the different states of matter

Science Reader's Theatre

 Hallway pretties....