Water, Water, Everywhere

This week we have been learning about the importance of WATER!
We have talked about what we do with water( drink, cook, wash clothes, bathe, animals live in it...) Most of the world is covered by water and 50% of our body is water!   We have also discussed how we are a rare country.  Not everyone has enough water.  :(  We have been experimenting with what it would be like to walk miles and have to get water from a well!  We brainstormed on Day 2 on what we could do differently to make the job quicker and easier.  Project time next week!  This PBL is a winner! 

 

We also have been measuring.  We have learned that can measure length and height using cubes.  Next week we will use popsicle sticks to measure longer items!!  We have discussed longer than, shorter than, longest and shortest. We are learning  how to make good estimates of the length of objects.

 

WE WON THE WINTER READING CHALLENGE!

PANCAKES WITH THE PRINCIPAL COMING SOON...

( More importantly...we became better readers which makes better students who are successful in school!  Thanks for making us winners!)

 

 

Welcome Back - 2014

Welcome back!  I missed these kiddos and we talked about what a resolution was today!  Students wrote about something they want to improve on in the New Year!  I shared mine first and mine...is to show love to others by deeds and not just words.  Great job everyone!  Ask your child about his/her writing!

We started measurement in math and students scooped cubes and made 3 towers and ordered them from smallest to largest and drew their findings!  Others began working with subtraction fast facts.  The kids worked with math on Ipads and played race to 120 ( a great counting game to keep us focused ) !

We had a lot of fun making reindeer with candy canes and pipe cleaners and then work math Christmas word problems!   We have some great thinkers! 
After that, we made reindeer recipe for the reindeer and wrote out the recipe so we can make it at home! 

We appreciate our great examples from BSHS taking time to read to us today!  The kids loved having them!

Boiling Springs High Schoolers Reading to 1st Grade!

Picture Collages in December...

              We have started our "count down" to Christmas to help us prepare for subtraction in January!  The children have enjoyed counting backward and getting closer daily to Santa!  We read lots of gingerbread books this week and today we created a graph and wrote about our graph information! We are ready for Santa and we made a cookie plate for Santa's cookies.  He always ate my cookies growing up!!  :)

 We are the champions!  We raised over $200 in our class alone for the Clemson Carolina Challenge and won a pizza/movie party!  Thanks for your help and contributions!  It's fun to win but it is more fun knowing that our proceeds go to fight cancer. I am sure we all have someone touched by the disease. 
Have a great weekend!