Today to continue on with our health unit we talked about our skeleton. We learned lots of new facts about our skeleton! Here are a few examples of our writings. You can find this paper on my TpT site here
Then, we made skeletons to go along with our writing!
And finally!!!! Our science experiment! We learned about our blood! What exactly does our blood consist of and what would our blood look like under a microscope!? Well, we found out! Here is what we made!
Today was our 100th day of school! I had the door decorated so when the kiddos got there they got to walk through this cool sheet and I wore my 100 eye ball monster shirt!
Then, I had so many fun things planned! The first thing we did was draw what they thought they might look like when they were 100 years old. The paper can be found on my TpT store here.
We also wrote 100 words! And read all 100 sight words!
Then we made 100 day crowns!
I also had students create different things using 80 blocks and 20 cards to see what they could create with 100 things! Here is what one small group came up with.
Then, we did a couple of 100 seconds challenges. Like... Can you hold a huge bubble in your mouth while breathing through your nose for 100 seconds. Also, can you stand on one foot for 100 seconds!
Then.... We made our 100 day snack! 10 items from 10 different choices to make a snack full of 100 items. We had goldfish, red hots, marshmallows, chips, cheese-it's, skittles, M & Ms, peppermints, and some more I am forgetting! :-) here are the kiddos enjoying their delicious snack!
This week we are talking about health & nutrition. This is a writing activity that we did today about what we think the tooth fairy actually does with all of those teeth. We made a tooth fairy craft and did a creative writing activity. They picture below only shows the writing activity. This writing activity can be found at my TpT store: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Megan-Lenhardt
Each year when teaching my class about health and nutrition I always do this germ science experiment. We take 3 skinned potatoes and rub one with all of the kids hands, one we rub all over the carpet in the classroom, and the last one we take outside and roll it in the grass and dirt and gravel. Then we label our potato cups and put straws into the potatoes for handling so we don't contaminate our experiment when we check them out everyday. Then, we make a hypothesis about which potato is going to grow the most germs over the week. Every year the students hypothesis is always the potato that we rolled around outside. I think this is because it looks the dirtiest. But... I know which one actually grows the most germs! You will have to wait to find out the results or do the experiment with your class! ;-)
Let me first start off by saying... I LOVE SCIENCE! I do science experiments all the time in my classroom and every time I do these science experiments I always wear my lab coat and safety goggles. My classes always think its so exciting! So don't laugh to hard when you see the upcoming pictures of me in my lab coat!
This week we have discussed everything Arctic! So today, Friday, we did a science experiment and investigation. We asked the questions... How does blubber help animals stay warm, how would it feel if we had blubber, what does blubber feel like? So in order to answer these questions we did some science investigations! First, I got a bowl, ice, graduated cylinder of water, 2 sets of rubber gloves, and last crisco!
First, I had each student dip one hand in the ice water to test out how cold it felt on our bare hands.
Then, I got my set of rubber gloves on and I feeled one of the other rubber gloves with crisco and had the first student put on the other glove. So the student only had one hand with a glove on. Once I got done filling the other glove with crisco I slide the crisco filled glove on over the other glove the student was wearing and made sure the crisco was spread over their hands and had them dip their hand into the ice cold water to give it a test!
*note the student cannot submerge the glove fully into the water. The part on the wrist must stay out of the water so water doesn't go into the inside of the glove.
Every student got to have a turn. Our experiment yielded that blubber really does help animals stay warm by giving them lots of layers to insulate!
Since we have been discussing arctic animals this week we have learned about polar bears, walrus, penguins, artic foxes, and seals. Here is a research paper we did on polar bears. Students filled in information they have learned throughout the week. They all did a great job! Here is one sample.
If you would like to get this sheet it can be purchased at my TpT store:
Today we talked about penguins again. We read different non-fiction & fiction texts discussing the difference between the two types of books. After learning fu facts about penguins & non-fiction & fiction texts we made paper tear penguins. I love activities like this because they all turn out different. Here are just a few samples.
We studied Walruses yesterday and made this great craft! It takes one full noncoated paper plate and two small noncoated paper plates and two small pieces of white or ivory paper for tusks. It is a lot of assembling, but its cute and the kids love it! You could have students paint them brown, but I stuck to brown crayons. Less mess. Have fun making your walrus!
Today we studies penguins & watched the live San Diego Seaworld penguin webcam of the penguins! It has audio & video. The kids loved the sounds they were making. A few of the penguins came right up to the camera which the kids thought was "Awwwesome" :-) this craft just take two noncoated paper plates. One stays whole and the other one you have the kids cut the center out and use that for the head and wings.