2. Special Kid is Peter!
3. No School December 21st-January 1st.
Then, we made clouds out of cotton balls to culminate our learning!
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1. Happy Birthday this week to London! 2. Special Kid is Peter! 3. No School December 21st-January 1st. This week we learned about the different kinds of clouds (cirrus, stratus, and cumulus). Students learned about the shape of each cloud, location of each cloud in the atmosphere, and the type of weather each cloud usually brings.
Then, we made clouds out of cotton balls to culminate our learning!
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Today we learned how and why communities change. We started by thinking about growing communities. We learned that jobs bring people to a community, and that the people have different needs. Then, we made our own model of a growing community. Then we had a great discussion about how communities change! Tomorrow we'll be talking about when and why a community gets smaller. One student already pointed out that Detroit's community got bigger when people moved there for jobs in the car industry, so we were able to talk about what happens when factories close. We also discussed how our community is always changing because of the university.
1. Scholastics are due Friday, December 5th. If you order books for a gift let me know so I can get them to you without your child seeing. This order will be in before our holiday break. 2. No School this Wednesday-Friday due to Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I know I'll be spending mine with my family and enjoying every second of it, especially the time I get to spend with grandparents and nieces/nephews! I hope you have time to spend with your family as well! 3. If your child is in need of an AAPL library card then please return the yellow sheet asap. Thank you! 4. Report cards come home on Monday. 5. No Special Kid next week due to the short week. Last week in science students learned about parts of the brain that activate senses. They looked at PET scans, which is a picture of a human brain taken by a very sensitive machine to show active parts of the brain in color. Then they tried foods that were new to many of them to think about reaction in their brains. They tried cornichons, coconut chips, fennel bulb, and roasted seaweed! Here are just a few pictures of our field trip to the UMS concert to see Jake Shimabukuro play the ukelele! Yesterday in class we did a science experiment on the color black! We started with the question, "What is the color black?". ![]() Then we started our science experiment. I got this experiment idea from this link, http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/is-black-black. During our experiment we learned the words soluble and chromotography. Students used: Coffee Filters Water Soluble Black Marker Pipe Cleaners Cup Water First we used our black markers to draw a design on our coffee filters. Then, we popped the filters on a pipe cleaner and added a few drops of water. After we let is stand for 15 minutes, our filters looked like this: We were so stunned and we realized that to make the color black you need all the colors of the rainbow! Last, we recorded our observations in our science journals. We also noted that the color black, like we see at night time, is actually the absence of all colors. At then end, when I asked students again, "What is the color black?", one of our friends said,
"The color black is beautiful!". I couldn't have said it any better myself! This week in social studies we finished learning about the different types of communities. In this unit we were reading about communities, learning a community song, watching videos of communities, using our bodies to show community populations, and so much more! Here's a little peak at how we ended our unit. Then, we each were given one item to make out of construction paper. We had to think about where we'd most likely see our item in order to determine which community group we belonged to. After, we mapped out our communities on poster paper. I loved the conversations I was hearing during this time. Students were thinking critically about what their communities needed. I heard things like, "There are people walking from their house to the park so we should add a sidewalk," or, "The street should be outside the restaurant, and there should be a bus stop there so people can go eat!" It was also great teamwork practice! You can view our models outside our classroom. Ask your child which community they helped with and what type of things they made for it!
Our friend Ashley submitted a joke for our student blog! Make sure you take a look when you get a chance! Here are some recent pictures from our trip to the Arb and our learning!
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