Crystals, The Greedy Triangle and All About Azariah

Have a wonderful March Break!

We read the story 'The Greedy Triangle' today after gym class.  Do you agree with the title of the book?

Azariah was our Student of the Week.  He brought in a lot of pictures of his family.  Some of his pictures were taken in Ethiopia!  We love Azariah's smile!

Narratives, Subtraction and Crystals!

Today we began to look at narratives and created an anchor chart to assist us when we are writing our own stories.  It looks a lot like a Shape Go Map that we used to retell a...story!  After watching the story 'The Plot Chickens', we discussed things that a narrative must have to be awesome! We remembered to include proper punctuation and add details to 'bump up' our writing.

In Math, we continue to focus on 2D geometry but we are also beginning to work on subtracting 2-digit numbers with regrouping.  We used base ten to help us and even got to write on our desks! Here is a great poem to help us remember when we have to 'borrow' a ten!

 In Science, we created a solution using Borax (solid) and hot water (liquid).  We are hoping crystals will form on our 'snowflakes'.  Stay tuned! We also talked about solids that float and sink.  A new word was introduced...buoyancy (the ability of an object to float in water or air).  We discovered that not all solids float and a lot of them sink!

Skating and Day 2 of Making Crystals

Thank you to our parent volunteers who joined us on our skating trip!

Making Crystals and Liquid Race

Today we made heart-shaped crystals!  Well...they haven't actually turned into crystals yet but maybe by Friday... We mixed borax and hot water (stirring to make sure it was dissolved).  Then, we made hearts out of pipe cleaners and placed it in the hot water.  We hope to turn the liquid into a solid!

In Math, we are investigating 2D shapes and we made this anchor chart about all the things we know about...shapes!

We also had a liquid race between ketchup, mustard and syrup.  More people thought syrup would win because it flowed very well in its container.