Science Friday - 3 Little Pigs

October is Fairy Tale month. On Thursday, students learned my epilogue of "The Three Little Pigs." In some versions of tale, pigs "1" and "2" end up living with pig "3" happily ever after. Yes, this is true, but eventually the pigs start tiring of sharing such a small space. In order, to stay in the "happily ever after" place that all fairy tales end with, pigs "1" and "2" decide to go out and find other living accommodations. Instead of building houses, they are going shopping for a house.

The students' job was to build models of houses that a pig might choose to buy. Prior to building students talked about the type of materials available to them, the properties each material offered to make for a great house. We talked about strength, size, texture and shape as properties that would guide choices for building. Here is a link to our models:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/kA5BfRTCMxwf66uk2

Updates

January flew by in our classroom. We've been so busy that I forget to pick up a camera. I hope that we can start to integrate the Dojo app, as I know everyone is excited to use it and share with you. Here's what we've been up to: Math: We have now made the transition to integrating Mrs. Fake's class into our math class. We are steadily working on Unit 4 Measurement. Students are working on accuracy, choosing the right tools and units for measurement, and making comparisons between the measurements of 2 objects. This next group of lessons involves conversions between inches, feet and yards. If your student is working in Mrs. Fake's room, she is also working on measurement. In fact, my students prefer to bring their math homework to her! Everyone should be able to measure things at home. Writing: We are working on opinion writing by answering "Would You Rather" questions. Students are expected to give their opinion, support it with reasons a

Landforms

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Our new room!

This is an old picture from step up day. They have grown so much! We have had a great short, but first week back. We are pleased with the new classroom arrangement, which allows for small group reading as well as more movement and flexible seating during the day. Here's our start to the new year: We continue to build our understanding of language mechanics through the mentor sentence program. This past week, students worked on sorting winter words that were either nouns or adjectives. Because students are growing this parts of speech foundation, I can give them very specific feedback on the mechanics of their own writing. And then, by partnering this work with our "Would You Rather" project, a series of short writing tasks, I hope that students will gain a deeper understanding of what makes great writing. We tried out our first question this week: Would you rather only have heat or only have air conditioning? In this weather, you can imagine that many stu

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