Friend Web

I was recently in a second grade room and we made this Friend Web:

In the red we talked about things we can do with friends. In the blue, we talked about how we should act with friends.

October- No Bones about it!

The first week of October we talked about Skeletons.

Here are the skeletons that the Kindergartners and First Graders created.

 We did the Macarana Bones by Dr. Jean and did the dance that went with it. I will be sharing the video at the science fair. We charted the words.

 We cut apart and labeled parts of the skeletons. Here are the the skeletons for the 2-5th grades.

 Our skeletons are so big, we must fold them up!

We hung a large skeleton which is labeled for the children to use as a guide.

We learned some very cool songs.   We had most of the words covered, I could just see the chorus, so we just sang that over and over! The rest of the words were covered with the skeleton with labels. It was so cute how they just sang that part with me over and over!

Elementastics

A local college comes to our school to share science experiments with all of the children. This Wednesday, we broke down into a little different groups:  3-5, 1-2, and then the Kindergartners. The oldest children did cool experiments with light.

The children picked a few shapes, then they used a very cool kind of paper. They even put them in frames!

1-2 children did several stations using their senses. One station had to do with touch.  They used three bins of water: 2 warm bins and one cool.

The other station was with sight.  We looked at the circle and guessed what it was going to look like.

The final station is with jelly beans!!!  We closed our eyes and plugged our noses and tried to guess the flavor of the jelly bean.  Then we just closed our eyes and guessed.  This was the yummiest science experiment yet!!!




The Kindergartners got to wear lab coats.  I took each of their pictures in the lab coats for our book.

Then on to our experiment.

We did a cool experiment using: water, oil, and vinegar. We used test tubes!

Then the COOLEST experiment of all!!!!

Then we did a very neat experiment. One that anyone can do at home.  All you need, is a plate, milk, food coloring, a q-tip, and some dish washing soap.

Visitors

United States 4,034 Canada 222 Australia 99 Germany 84 Poland 28 United Kingdom 27 New Zealand 16 Ireland 13 China 12 Japan 8

All of these people visisted my site!!!!!!!!!!!!

Insects Sept 20-October 1st

We talked about insects for the past two weeks. We talked about first off what an insect was. A creature that has three body parts. We sang Dr. Jean's insect song. We also talked about how insects moved.

We talked about the name of the insect, drew a picture, and then how it moved. 


                                           Kindergarten                              First Grade

We recorded this in our science logs.

We brainstormed insect words (2-5)
K-5 each drew an ant. K-1 children got words to cute out and paste. 2-5 had to write it down themselves.

We looked through our "Bug Eyes" to see how bugs see everything. Everyone loved this! We looked at our friends and even me!

To conclude our unit, I let the children draw and label as many insects that they could. Here are some of their awesome work!

One thing that you might notice are the little stars on the science logs. We give the stars out two stars- one for their log, one for our Science Stars display. The children are super excited to get them!!

Our science logs

Here is our science log home.

Here are the science logs. My friend Danielle made us the cover using my friend Ashley's graphics. Thanks so much to both of you! The kids love them!
I have now labeled the drawers, more so that I can find the notebooks! I am still trying to figure out a quicker way to get these out. Perhaps, I will have a student helper pass them out.

Our First week of the ASP

In September we will be talking about being scientists. We really want all of the children to see themselves as scientists. We watched a PowerPoint twice. The first time just to get info then the second time to see what tools and safety items they used. The K-1 children listened to the book What Do Scientists Do by Deanna Jump. The 2-5th graders helped read the book:

we made copies of the left side pages and then just had the kids read the sheets.

(pictures to follow)

I am hoping to borrow a teacher's lab coat to make our first, of many, class books. This week, we talked about being safe. We all signed a contract about being safe. We even got a science log.Inside the front cover, we have science expectations. The first time we used our logs, we talked about tools. I gave the K-1 a typed list of tools and they illustrated the words. The 2-5 graders had to come up with their own and illustrate them.

We have the kindergartners practice their names each and every day.