Ice

The children are interested in ice. Here are some pictures we saw at school.

ICE SCULPTURE DAY

 WEDNESDAY

FEBRUARY 24



 

 

REMEMBER ICE SCULPTURE DAY

WEDNESDAY

Bring in your colored ice to share and build.

Poem of the week .

Here is the poem of the week and remember to complete the activity and return folders Wednesday.

 

 

Happy Family Day Feb 15

Miss Oscroft and I would like to wish everyone a Happy Family Day!!!
We hope you enjoy the special time together.   Share the love!!!

 



An Alphabet Hunt

This week we looked at the book "Alphabet City" by Stephen T. Johnson. 

We went on a hunt for letters in the alphabet in our school yard.  Can you see the letters we found in our environment? 

We had to turn our heads sideways and upside down, but we found some!!

Friday Feb 5

Experimenting with Chocolate

Last week we read a non-fiction book about ice. Our discussion lead to questions what other things melt like ice and snow. Today we did an experiment with chocolate!

First we observed and described the chocolate.
"It is hard."
"It has rectangles."

The students went to document their observations of the chocolate.

Then we predicted what would happen to the chocolate after being put in hot water.
Brock: "It will stay the same."
M: "The bag will melt first, then the chocolate."
Cooper: "The chocolate is going to melt."

We counted to 10.
Checked and no change.
So we counted to 20.
A little bit of chocolate was melting.
So we counted to 100.
Afterwards the chocolate had melted! The students had a lot of words to describe the chocolate.

We drew how the chocolate now that it was melted. 

" A Big Blob!" 

"I drew some pieces because it isn't all melted."

After the weekend, the students asked about the chocolate. We observed and described it.

"It dried up."
"It makes a sound when you turn the bag."
"It breaks easily."
"its flat and smooth."
"It's hard."

Miss Oscroft asked, "what would happen if we put it in hot water again?"

Are there other ways to melt the chocolate?

"A microwave."
"Your hands."

We are going to experiment with it again.

Wednesday Feb 3 Onions

 A student brought in an onion so we could cut it in slices and use it to help breathe . It is believed to help stop coughing and help breathing. A hypothesis that we wanted to try. We described the onion by touch, smell,sound and sight.

 Mrs. Tizzard  traced the onion.

 

Children took turns touching the onion.

 

 

 Eli "It is weird. It is orange and yellow.

 

Mrs.Tizzard cut the onion in slices.

 



 

 

Emily-Ann is smelling the onion.

 

 

 Scarlett is smelling the onion.

 

 

Some comments about the onion.

 

Isabella: "Soft and yellow".

Channing: "Lots of layers".

Nathan: "Two layers"

Ehsan:  "Onions with flat layers".

M: "It has lines"

Luca: " It feels weird ,soft and fuzzy ".

Emily-ann: "Sounds crumbily"

Victoria:" A sphere".

Tishawn: "Brown".

Payton:" It makes us cry"

Brock:" Smooth"

Scarlett:"Squishy".

Nakayda:"Inside is yellow".

Eli: " It is weird. It is orange and yellow.

Trenton:" It has a little bit of golden".

Mae:" Back top looks like hair going down".

Nikolai:" Circle".

Jackson:"Squishy."

Miss Oscroft:"It has hair".

Emily: " Hard".

 

It was fun to discover that the smell was strong. We were able to take deep breathes after we cut the onion.

 

 

 

 



Monday Feb1 I Love Reading

This week we launched our "I Love Reading " program. The children have been excited to add stickers to the large heart on our door. Have fun reading.