Race to 40

This week students have been practicing a new math game called "Race to 40" to practice regrouping for addition. They are doing awesome!

Come by Wednesday night from 5:30-7:30 to play with your student and learn how to play this and other games at home this summer. There will also be some writing projects on display and the students love to show off their reading skills in our classroom library! Looking forward to seeing you there.

Saguaro

Today we read the story "Cactus Hotel" as our unit opener. We learned that the saguaro cactus can live for 200 years and grow to be 50 feet tall! The class wanted to know how tall 50 feet was. Since we didn't have a ladder tall enough, we measured how long 50 feet was in our hallway.  Beginning at our door, we made it past Mrs. Rich's bulletin board and almost to Mrs. Young's room.  That's a tall plant!

Earth Day garden clean-up

This afternoon for Earth Day we went out with Mrs. Whittum's class to clean up the garden beds outside of our windows. We pulled out grass that had grown within the beds along with dead growth from last years. Now the beds are ready to be mulched over vacation as the many bulbs planted within will begin growing and blooming!

Happy Earth Day!!

Sink or Float?

Today we explored more with our solids. Just like scientists, we made and recorded predictions about our solids thinking about which would sink and which would float.

Then we got to experiment to see what they would actually do! The students took turns dropping them in the water. Some of our predictions were right, and some of the outcomes surprised us! A couple items floated at first, but then were knocked underwater (the spoon) or became waterlogged and sank (the pipe cleaner). 

Comparing Length and Height

On Friday, the students got a new pencil and were asked to find objects in the room that were taller and shorter than the pencil as well as longer and shorter than the pencil. They recorded their findings in their math journals. (There aren't many pictures because the hunt was fast and furious!)