READ AT HOME

We have started our Read At Home program at school.  In order to participate, your student needs to agree to read 600 minutes in 6 weeks.  Your student has a blue calendar to use for this.  Remember to sign it and turn it in at the end of February. Every student who completes this goal will receive a free Silverwood ticket!

Note:  if your child is not participating in the Read At Home activity, he/she is still expected to complete the classroom assignment of reading 4 times a week for 20 minutes at each time. I will continue to check those reading logs on Mondays.

Stream Tables

Erosion, deltas, meanders, canyons, plateaus and more! Today we built stream tables and watched erosion up close!  How was the Grand Canyon formed?  How do scientists know erosion played a part?  Can we pick up the Grand Canyon and bring to a science lab?  Can Earth Scientists stand in the middle of the Grand Canyon and watch erosion happen?

Aw!!  Maybe they use a model??

Next, the kids built Stream Tables.

I have to say...the kids did a GREAT job with this investigation!  They were focused and working hard.  I was super proud of them.  Next, every group shared what they observed.

Science!!

We have a new science kit!  The kit is called Landforms.  This kit will help to teach many important science skills, concepts and science vocabulary.  We started the kit last week with a discussion about why we use models and maps.  The kids started by creating a schoolyard model.

After building the model, we had a discussion around how a person might share the information from their model.  Would it be easy or convenient to take the model to a meeting about the schoolyard?  That lead to the idea that perhaps a map might be a more efficient way to share out schoolyard landforms and structures.  The kids became "cartographers" and drew a map of their model using a grid overlay and markers.

They did a great job!  We will be using the models and trays to create Stream Tables.  It's a lot of learning mixed with a lot of fun.  Wait!  I thought learning wasn't supposed to be fun!