Students just finished up the unit on 3D shapes.  Check out their learning videos describing their 3D shapes using riddles.  You can access all the videos through the student’s learning blogs.

Water Cycle Field Trip

The water cycle field trip was a huge success.  A huge thank you to Nevada Outdoor School for hosting and teaching the kids about our local water shed and water cycle.  Students learned about precipitation, collection, evaporation, condensation, and tributaries using examples form our local watershed.

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We have started our geometry unit on shapes.  Students are learning about 2 dimensional polygons.  Vocabulary like quadrilaterals, line segments, angles, and vertices are just some of the words that we use to describe these shapes.  Students went on a shape hunt and then labeled and explained their shapes.  You can access their shapes via the student learning links.

STEM Rockets

Friday we did a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) challenge.  The challenge was to create a rocket out of tape, one straw, and paper to fly the furthest distance. We learned about pressure, drag, thrust, and distance.

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Mystery Geography Skype

This video was made by one of the students after our mystery geography skype.  These skypes are like mystery number skypes but we use maps and locations instead of numbers.  Students try and guess where the other students live before they guess where we live.  Yes and no questions are asked.  For example – Do you live east of the Mississippi River?  This is a great question because you can take 3/4 of the states off the map based on this one question.  Not only do the  kids love it; we get to practice our speaking and listening skills, map skills, and working together to solve a problem.

Students have been learning about measurement.  Every day students built a page explaining each measurement term.  At the end of the unit, they put all the pages together into a video.  You can access all the videos by clicking on the student blogs under class blogs.

This Thursday, 2/22/18 is our STEM Fair.  Our class is really excited to showcase our last stem project.  Students were given the task to construct a ramp that would have the furthest distance for a sled using card stock, linking cubes, scotch tape and a plastic bottle for “sleds”.

Buckaroo breakfast, poetry around the campfire with our reading buddies, kindergarten rodeo, and concert at the convention center were just some of the activities we participated in last week during cowboy poetry.  Can’t wait for next years festivities .

We ran out of time to do our tree stem before break so we modified it and did it today.  The task was to design, build, and then redesign to make the tallest tree out of cups.  The tallest tree was 70 inches.  All of our groups were able to make modifications to their designs to make their trees taller.  This is considered a success!

We have been working on arrays.  Arrays are groups of objects organized in rows and columns.  Students created repeated addition sentences to find the total amount of objects in the arrays.  This is the precursor to learning multiplication because multiplication is repeated addition.  Check out the students learning blogs to see their arrays.