Measurement

We read a story called Actual Size by Steve Jenkins. This book was all about the sizes of different animals. We got to see the actual size of a Great White Sharks teeth and the length of an ant eaters tongue.

We found out that Amelia's hand is the same size as the teeth of a Great White Shark.

The next day we put out a provocation. We placed two pictures from this book on a table and asked the students what they could do with these pictures.

We had some friends tracing the gorilla's hand. Then they would trace their own hand inside the palm of the gorilla. 

Some friends decided to measure themselves using the gorilla hands.

We took another look at the ant eater picture and asked the students what we should do. They came up with measuring to see who has the longest tongue in our class.

We had all of our friends stick out their tongues. We thought that Guiliana had the longest tongue. After measuring we found out that our prediction was correct! Giuliana's tongue is 6 centimetres long.

Planting/Measurement

OUR GRASS IS GROWING!!!

Monday morning we came to school and had a wonderful surprise. Our grass grew! During our morning carpet time we had a great discussion about our grass. Senna had a wonderful question, "How can we measure it?" Guiliana had a great response, "We can use a ruler". We decided that we should measure our grass using a ruler. We found out that our grass is 2 inches tall or 7 centimetres tall.

During centre time some of the students took a ruler and decided to measure different things in our classroom.

Planting

The red class is very interested in planting! We noticed a few of our students pretending to plant seeds in the sandbox today. We asked our class a question during our morning carpet time, "Do you think seeds will grow in sand?" 15 students said "yes" and 3 students said "no". We decided to explore this question by planting grass seeds in sand. Now we get to compare the grass seeds in soil and in sand. 

A student found an apple seed on our floor after snack time. He decided that he wanted to see if the seed would grow an apple in our classroom. We gave him some soil to pant the seed.

He created an apple picture so that everyone would know what he had planted.

Now we have grass, flowers, beans and apple seeds that we are trying to grow in our classroom. Let the growing begin!

Our Water Toy

Two weeks ago Mrs. Porcari brought in a liquid timer/toy for our friends to observe and play with. All of our students loved watching the liquid drip and shaking it to see what happened. Since there was only one we had to work on taking turns and sharing our toy. Unfortunately our toy broke after only having it for one week. We decided as a class that we should try to make one. Take a look at how we created our toy.

We had our students try a new iPad attachment called Osmo. It had a game that related very well to our toy. Our students had to come up with ways to get the dropping balls to hit a target. At first they used paper and pencil then we moved on to different materials. The students worked very well helping each other out. 

After discussing what materials we needed and coming up with different designs we were now ready to create our new toy.