Sharing travel experiences and ramp building!

We started our morning with some EEKK (partner reading) with our story of the week!  It is called The Big Trip and they were all very excited about it because some of them had gone on a trip during winter break.  They were all sharing experiences about traveling and I loved hearing the discussions and that they were bringing in personal experiences :). 

 

We've continued working on force of motion this week!  Our class went hands on!  Each table had the opportunity to create their own ramp that would "push" their car down fastest.  We also included the concept of friction because we used our carpet for our first runs.  The goal was to create a ramp that would help push their car the farther than any other group.  No matter who was winners or losers we all had a GREAT time :).  Thank you to everyone who let us borrow cars :).  We didn't get to finish due to the snow day so I'll make sure you get your cars back next week!

Holiday WISHES!!!

I didn't want to publish these before everyone had for sure opened their holiday presents!  Here are all of our holiday wishes for 2016!!!

 

Rulers, Birthday, and Forces of Motion!

During math today we worked on measuring in both inches and centimeters.  We started by looking at both of them on the ruler and making observations about them.  As a class we decided that centimeters are much smaller than inches.  The kids decided to call them the BIG inches and the tiny centimeters :).  Then they each got to pick an item and measure it first in inches then next in centimeters.  They then had a chance to present them and tell both how many inches and how many centimeters the item was. 

 

 

Happy Belated 7th Birthday Rachel!!!

 

Push and Pull Challenge!

 

We started learning all about the forces of motion today and focused on pushes and pulls.  After a discussion about ways to move things we dove in to our big challenge.  Each team picked one item and they had to figure out a way to make the item travel 12 inches with out being touched by anyone!  At first they were annoyed and thought it would be impossible.  Then you could see some wheels turning and they started to think about other items they could use to either push or pull the item across the table.  In the end they were all successful and figured out ways to get the item to move 12 inches!

 

Winter Party FUN!!!

We had a wonderful Winter party!  Thanks so much to everyone who helped with brining items, helping during the party, or helping organize!  Everyone LOVED it and a great time was had by all.