Tomorrow is our project making day with our denim! We finished the book Mr. Blue Jeans, so now we are creating a product out of denim. Your child may want to bring in some good fabric scissors for Tuesday. We have some in the classroom, but we will share those supplies. If your child's design involves a lot of cutting, it would be helpful to have an individual pair. We will take good care of them and send them home on Tuesday.
After we make our products on Tuesday, we will sell them, using our class Bighorn Bucks, to our classmates. This will be a really fun way to learn about economics. We are super excited for this week. Thursday will be the test day on this book.
In other news, we are trying to keep our terrariums and earthworms alive with the right amount of sun and water. We are learning about the water cycle, energy transfer in organisms and photosynthesis. Trickier than it sounds. It is a fun week!
Monday, February 23, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Terrariums, Blue Jeans, Christmas Play Link
We had a great time building our terrariums. Thank you, parents, for sending in the supplies! The kids did really well with reading the directions, splitting the plants carefully, helping each other, and cleaning up afterwards. We are excited to observe them and see how we can help our plants thrive.
Our next request is for jeans by Feb. 2/24. We are reading the biography of Levi Strauss, Mr. Blue Jeans. We will finish this book this week. Next week we will create a product out of the denim from the jeans. Your child will use the jeans he or she brings in. It will be a fun way to imagine the process Levi Strauss went through as he came up with the idea for sturdy pants for the miners of San Francisco.
Keep your child reading for reading log at home. Just a reminder, the 20 minutes is a minimum requirement, but if your child is able, please have him or her read more!
Thanks to Cody Deegan, we have a link to view the class Christmas play. It is pretty cute. Have a great week!
http://youtu.be/F7cNIUU8t9c
Our next request is for jeans by Feb. 2/24. We are reading the biography of Levi Strauss, Mr. Blue Jeans. We will finish this book this week. Next week we will create a product out of the denim from the jeans. Your child will use the jeans he or she brings in. It will be a fun way to imagine the process Levi Strauss went through as he came up with the idea for sturdy pants for the miners of San Francisco.
Keep your child reading for reading log at home. Just a reminder, the 20 minutes is a minimum requirement, but if your child is able, please have him or her read more!
Thanks to Cody Deegan, we have a link to view the class Christmas play. It is pretty cute. Have a great week!
http://youtu.be/F7cNIUU8t9c
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Ecosystem project
We are starting a really exciting new project this week. We will be making soda bottle terrariums in the classroom as a way to learn about living things. We will learn about photosynthesis and be able to show how the sun's energy is used for producers and consumers, and that plants get what they need for growth mostly from air, sunlight, and water. Your child came home with a list of supplies they need. Each student needs a clear 2 liter bottle with the cap. Each student also has another assignment for a shared item, such as potting soil or small rocks. Our planting day is Tuesday Feb. 17, so please make sure supplies are in by that day. That is the day after a Monday holiday, so don't let that sneak up on you!
We are reading a biography in class, Mr. Blue Jeans, which is about Levi Strauss. We will make some things out of denim in a few weeks, so each student will need a pair of jeans that he or she can cut up and use the denim to make an item. It will be a fun way to put what we are reading about into practice.
Thank you for sending these things in!
Have a great week!
We are reading a biography in class, Mr. Blue Jeans, which is about Levi Strauss. We will make some things out of denim in a few weeks, so each student will need a pair of jeans that he or she can cut up and use the denim to make an item. It will be a fun way to put what we are reading about into practice.
Thank you for sending these things in!
Have a great week!
Monday, February 2, 2015
Classroom Projects
This week we will be presenting our projects on Matter to the 2nd and 3rd graders. We have rehearsed and the students have prepared some really neat demonstrations. We will end it with some homemade root beer, a solution because sugar and dry ice are dissolved in water. We will have a vocabulary quiz on our project words on Wednesday.
We are working on reviewing some language standards in Writing, parts of speech like prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, then moving into verbs and verb tenses. In Reading we are preparing to read a biography of Levi Strauss. We will be focusing on content vocabulary and creating an informal outline of facts as we read, as well as the overall structure of the text. For this book, each student will need a pair of denim jeans that he or she can cut up. Any size is fine, if you have a spare pair, please send them in.
Coming soon: Oasis Family Math Night - lots of fun learning!
We are working on reviewing some language standards in Writing, parts of speech like prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, then moving into verbs and verb tenses. In Reading we are preparing to read a biography of Levi Strauss. We will be focusing on content vocabulary and creating an informal outline of facts as we read, as well as the overall structure of the text. For this book, each student will need a pair of denim jeans that he or she can cut up. Any size is fine, if you have a spare pair, please send them in.
Coming soon: Oasis Family Math Night - lots of fun learning!
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