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Saturday, March 17, 2018

Reading to End Racism Week


This week began and ended with whole school assemblies as part of our Reading to End Racism week.

On Monday, Ms. Roth and Mrs. Sumner read the whole school this beautiful book:

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and we saw a preview of A2VT who closed out our week:


Rebecca Haslam was a guest reader for first and second grade.  




  















We continue to explore ways to encourage a growth mindset




In science this week we learned how to make sound effects with the help of the great website Mystery Science-ask your child how to make the sound of a rain storm and a ball dropping.
Then we experimented with volume.








Reading Partners working hard to grow as readers

 

In math we continued learning about measurement by measuring penguins and a student.  
Then we compared their heights to find the difference.


On Friday we read The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss in our WIN groups and talked about how this story is about racism.  We talked about accepting everyone's differences and making the world a more  inclusive place.

 




  



We ended the week with the high energy performance and Q & A by A2VT























Saturday, March 10, 2018

Sound Science

We have kicked off our new science unit on Sound and Light.

 



Our first investigative question was:
What causes sound?
Students were given a cup, a rubber band and a craft stick to experiment with.


Then they added these supplies to a white board to make a "whiteboard fiddle".


Here is what we learned:



The next day we experimented with a drop box.
Our investigative question:
What makes some sounds easier to identify?





We summarized that sounds we are familiar with, loud sounds, and soft sounds are easiest to identify.

The third day we experimented with tuning forks.  
This really helped strengthen the concept that vibration causes sound!









Here are a few short clips of the kids in action. 

Click on each to see the video!!

making a ping pong ball move with a tuning fork



Learning about how to persevere:


Our new chapter book read aloud-the last in the Toys Series:

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