PRINTMAKING IN ART

In today's Art class, Mr. Cicetti demonstrated how to do print-making using the side of a piece of card board.  Children were making prints with patterns, letters, and various designs.

Friday!

Today we had a fun day in computer class!  We got to color a picture, on KidPix, of a rocket ship.  Then we had free choice on the computer!

It was a blast!!!!

ANIMALS IN WINTER

Today we read a story about how animals survive in the Winter.  The book explained we read explained 4 different ways animals cope with the cold Winter weather.  Some animals migrate; some hibernate; some hide; and some change colors.  Following the story, we made birdfeeders using bagels, lard, and bird seed.  When our birdfeeders were finished, we headed outside to hang them for the birds to enjoy.

Wednesday, Discovery Day

 Ohhhh that's cold!

 With all of our recent disucssions about snow and ice, today we decided to have

a discussion about the animals that live in cold Arctic places.

We discussed how cold the water is and how it would feel if we had no protection.

So, we put our hands into ice cold water to see how it felt...

COLD!

We then talked about how animals in the Arctic protect themselves and keep warm. 

We learned about blubber and how different animals have sometimes a layer that is 12 inches

thick!  This helps the animals to stay warm in the very cold water.

So, our experiment was to make our own blubber layer and see if our hand would still be

really cold in the water or if it would be warm.

We took shortening and made a thick layer in a bag and then put another bag inside that

to protect our hand from getting all yucky.

We then put our hand into the two bags and put it back into the icy, cold water.

To our amazement, our hand didn't get cold!  It stayed perfectly warm!

It was a successful experiment!

 Jakob, putting his hand in the blubber-bag!

MARSHMALLOW & PRETZEL SNOWFLAKES

 On Monday, we read a non-fiction story about Winter and reviewed facts we've learned about snowflakes--their shapes, their uniqueness, their six sides/points, etc.  We then used pretzel sticks and marshmallows to create our own snowflakes.  These snowflakes didn't melt and they were yummy to eat!

Swimming Fun!

We had a really fun time in swimming today!

We practiced jumping into the pool with our kick-boards and we practiced kicking across 

from one end of the pool to the other.

After our kicking practice, we had free time in the pool

with the noodles!

It was great!

Wednesday... Computer Lab!

Mr. Mitchell found us a fun game on the computer where we could "show what you know" with our math-facts with simple adding!  Each level got a little harder than the one before!  When we were finished we got free choice on the computer.  Some of us played KidPix and some played Thinkin' Things!