We can't wait for Monday!!! When you get to school look for your 100 in the hallway!!! At 10:10 will will be going to the gym for a special presentation!! The Queen of Ten is on a vacation to Hawaii but the King of 100 will be making an appearance!
One of the stations is answering different questions in the hallway!!All students at Bates are encouraged to participate in this activity.
Making 100 things on the 100!!!
You need to search the hallways to find your 100!!!
One of the stations will be to decorate your 100 day hat with stickers.
Sink and Floating
The goal of this experience is to explore the ways some materials float and sink. We made predictions of what objects would sink or float and why???
We tested many different objects.
Water Drop Races For this investigation, we explored the speed of movement of drops of water on a ramp.
Why do drops of water move down the ramp?
What would make the drops move down the ramp slower?
Do big drops move down the ramp faster or slower than the small drops/
Water's "Skin" Exploring Surface Tension In this experience the children explored the ability of water to hold together like a sheet. Our Voice Thread below will share some of the investigations we did!!
Working in small groups we selected a favorite Rosemary Wells book. We sat in our small groups and retold the events that happened in the story using the pictures. Some groups has students who read the words. During our discussion we focused on the Problems and Solutions.
Talking and Reading in Groups
Writing and Drawing about the Problem and Solution
We made illustrations of our favorite characters from Rosemary Wells Books. If you click on the Voice Thread below we focused on problems and solutions in her stories.
Monday Stay Day Voice Thread.
We have had lots of discussion on how we notice her main characters are animals but act like people. Her stories often have problems and solutions. We have been making many text to self connections and text to text connections. This week we focused on reading the books connected to Timothy and the students from Mrs. Jenkins class. We love reading books starring Yoko. Below are some of our problem and solutions from the story Yoko's World of Kindness, this is a chapter books that focuses each chapter on a different problems in the classroom.
