Ava, Landon and Jayden all returned their Book-It forms from Pizza Hut and earned a free personal pan pizza for a month of reading!!
Thursday, March 29, 2018
We celebrated a month of reading today with some crazy dancing to songs about animals!
"Who let the dogs out?!?!"
Then we curled up with some books (and maybe a furry friend) to read!
We all love finding a cozy spot and a good book!
What a great way to spend some time!
All the students who completed their reading month calendars got to pick out a brand new book to keep!
Finally, Mrs. Mayne read the class a great book about a dog!
We were so glad when Alfie found a home at the end of the story!!
Hooray for reading!!
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
For part of our "Paws for Reading" Reading Month events, today we had some amazing frisbee dogs come visit the Early Elementary!
These dogs were sooooo cool!!
They did way more than just catch frisbees!
They could jump so high and balance and run so fast!
They could jump so high and balance and run so fast!
We really enjoyed seeing them and learning about the training they go through to learn these amazing tricks!
Friday, March 23, 2018
Yesterday, we were learning about stems and we talked about what we already know about stems. We realized that scientists have to be able to PROVE what they know or think through experiments. We thought long and hard about what we could do to PROVE that stems take water and nutrients from the roots or the ground to the leaves or fruits. We all decided that putting the stems in water would be a great first step but we couldn't think of a way to make it SHOW that the stem sucked up the water.
Mrs. Koehn challenged us to think of how we might use food coloring to prove our point. Some of us predicted the food coloring would keep the water from evaporating in the jars and then if the water level went down it had to be due to the stem. Others of us thought the food coloring would make the water too thick to go up the stems.
Mrs. Koehn challenged us to think of how we might use food coloring to prove our point. Some of us predicted the food coloring would keep the water from evaporating in the jars and then if the water level went down it had to be due to the stem. Others of us thought the food coloring would make the water too thick to go up the stems.
As it turns out, the food coloring PROVED that the stems sucked the water up and delivered it to the petals! We were so excited to see the results of our experiment today and to know that we found a way to have PROOF as scientists!
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
For our unit on plants, today we were learning about the function of roots.
We talked about how roots help bring food and nutrients to the leaves and fruits of a plants and how the roots help hold a plant in the ground so it doesn't fall over.
We decided the BEST thing scientists could do when discussing roots was to actually LOOK at some roots! We didn't think one of our classroom plants would mind too much if we gently took it out of the pot so we could see what roots look like!
We were really surprised at how BIG the roots are for this plant and what they felt like!
We had so much fun learning about roots today!
(Do not be surprised if we ask for a shovel when we get home tonight!)
Friday, March 16, 2018
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Addison and Kit both earned the candy bar of their choice for getting a perfect 100 on their addition facts! They have been working so hard to be able to fluently add! This skill helps them solve math problems faster and to dedicate their thinking to higher-order portions of problems rather than the more basic computational part!
Awesome work, girls!!
Monday, March 5, 2018
Mrs. Koehn is going to learn about ways to use technology in the classroom this week.
What are some ways you think we should use iPads in the classroom for learning?
If I were a teacher, I would use Raz Kids because it is reading. By Riley J.
If I were a teacher, I would use the iPads for math games and reading games like Raz Kids.By Addison
If I were a teacher and my kids had trouble and I didn't know what to do I would use abc mouse.com because it helps kids learn. By Charlotte
If I was a teacher and had technology and had to teach the kids how to learn on them I would tell them to use ABC.com because it is a great learning thing to use. By Kit
If I was the teacher I would let kids use ipads to help spell because they will learn how to spell the words. By Landon
If I was the teacher and I had to use a ipad to teach the kids I would go to math games for them to learn math. by Alison
If I were the teacher the ipad game for learning would be Dreambox because it is a fun ipad learning game. By Aiden
If I was a teacher and they used the ipad then I would let them read books and play math games and I would let them read and play learning games so they can learn math and reading. By Natalie
If I was the teacher I wold do ipad games for lerning if I was the teacher. By Luke
If I were a teacher and if I had the ipads I wood teach kids on how to learn on the ipads. One of the aps. I wood have the app that has books on it and I wood have raz kids. Those wood be all the the aps that I wood have on my ipads. By Mayeli
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