"Egg-cellent" Easter

We had a wonderful time celebrating Easter today! We learned about many of the traditional things that people do at Easter such as dying Easter eggs, going on Easter egg hunts, and creating Easter bunny art. Here are some pictures and video from our fun day!

https://animoto.com/play/0y25qPad81cOh4UzIHfCqg

We also enjoyed participating in several Easter science experiments. After enjoying the story, White Rabbit's Color Book, we had a chance to explore color mixing and see how you can combine primary colors to make a secondary color. Check out our video of this cool experiment:

https://vimeo.com/213160666

Then, we had the opportunity to perform several science experiments with our favorite Easter treat...PEEPS! First, we made predictions as to what would happen if you put a Peep in water, heated it up in the microwave, or put it in the freezer.  We predicted that a Peep in water would either dissolve or float. We observed from our experiment that a Peep in water would actually turn white because all of the sugar would dissolve in the water. Here is a before and after picture from that experiment:

After that, we decided to heat one up in the microwave and see what happened to it. Check out our video of this experiment:

https://vimeo.com/213160588

Our Peep that we put in the freezer is still awaiting further observations. We will have to get back to you on the results of that experiment later.

Here is a summary of our Peep experiments:

Finally, we enjoyed an exciting jellybean sorting and graphing activity in Math and a fun opportunity to paint an Easter sight word surprise page where our sight words magically showed up as we painted in English Language Arts. Here are some pictures from our activities. We hope you enjoy them! Please leave us a comment and let us know what you think.

Music Around the World--Session 3--Week 5--America

Wow! What an exciting day we had today at our fifth morning of our Music Around the World Club! Today we learned about our country--America! We focused on how Texans like to put a country twist on American favorites. After reviewing "It's a Small World", "Kye Kye Kule", "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", and "This Little Light of Mine." We were treated to a special guest, Miss Todd's Dad, Mr. Todd. He played his guitar for us and sang, "Sneaky Snake", a song that he and Miss Todd sang together when she was our age. If you watch closely, you can also see a sneak peak of Gus, Miss Todd's dog, who loves music and enjoys singing along to Mr. Todd's playing. After enjoying Mr. Todd's presentation, we had the opportunity to create string things, harmonicas, and washboards. We used these instruments to accompany our song, "You Are my Sunshine!" You can listen to our rousing rendition in the show we made below. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think about our fun day!

Don't forget to join us on Thursday night, May 18th at 7:00 P.M. for our presentation of our Music Around the World Celebration Night! You are going to enjoy seeing all of the instruments that we have created and songs that we have learned on our musical journey around the world!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_CGJElEYcj8bW8wcFhqcVhoM2s/view?usp=sharing

Measurement Rocks!

In math this week, we studied all of the different ways that you can measure items. This included measuring by length, weight, and capacity. Here is a show of our experiments from this week and some pictures of us using everyday objects to measure length. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think!

https://vimeo.com/212332148

We have been busy this week exploring nature, while learning about the different ways that you can measure an item. After going on a nature walk around our school, we used the rocks that we collected to investigate size, by sorting our rocks.  Here are some pictures of our rock sort. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think! We love hearing from you! Thanks!