September 24th - 28th

Math - Taking surveys to create their bar graphs, plot line graphs, and tally graphs.  They then used the data for our landmarks - maximum, minimum, range, mode, median, and mean.

Cardboard Challenge!  Ms. Bridge from Grant Wood AEA was our guest speaker this week.  She introduced the design cycle to the class, and they used this method to begin designing their arcade games which will be created out of cardboard.  We do have some boxes and things.  However, the kids may want to bring some items  from home.

Math - using calculators to figure out the mean for a set of numbers.

Social Studies - Painting our Physical Maps we are creating.

Cardboard Challenge - The kids met their partners today.  They will begin building on Thursday.

September 17th - 21st

Pictures from our Dot Day Celebration.

Playing Name that Number in Math.

Writing observations about our plants for science.

Reading an Iowa map and measuring distances.  Glad we have Google Maps now!

Celebrating "Talk Like a Pirate" Day.

 Making bar graphs in math while enjoying a treat of raisins.

Observing our Isopods, Mealworms and beginning our salt tolerance experiment with our plants.

September 10th - 14th

Pam Holtz, from the Washington Co. Conservation Office, visited the classroom to do an activity with environments.  The kids worked in groups, read about an environment, then created an animal which could live in that environment.  The kids came up with some very unusual animals.

Social Studies - We continue to learn about map skills.  We learned that coloring a physical map requires some mathematical thinking.

Reading - Working on an activity to identify the difference between fiction and nonfiction books.

 Science - Thursday we introduced Isopods into our critter environment.  There were two types of Isopods, sow bugs and pill bugs.  Many of the kids knew them as Rolly Pollies".  We are working on an experiment to see if they like wet ground, or dry ground.