Spring Break Catch Up

Spring break has finally given me some time to catch up on blogging and share what's been going on in class. Spring's arrival has been evident in the warmer temperatures and sprouting plants, including the veggie and flower seedlings for our school garden sprouting in our classroom.

 

Speaking of the weather, we've completed our weather unit in science. The classroom was decorated with 4 types of clouds: cumulus, cirrus, stratus, and nimbus...

 

   as well as cloud and water cycle posters...

 

The students made their own 4 types of clouds foldables using cottonballs....

 

and we even demonstrated how water condensation causes rain using shaving cream, blue food coloring, and  a jar of water....

  

We've now begun our plant unit, learning the roles of each part of a plant and classifying plants we eat as the root, stem, seed, or flower.

 

We'll continue our plant unit learning what flowers and cones do and conduct a pollination experiment when we return from spring break.

In math, we've completed our geometry unit. Activities included creating different types of lines and rays using toothpicks and stickers; making 3 types of triangles foldables; classifying 3D shapes according to their sides, faces, and vertices; and classifying figures as congruent or similar...

 

One of the highlights of the unit was receiving a "letter from NASA" asking us to design robots for a Mars mission using specific perimeter and area measurements. The teams were very creative in their designs, including a drill on one robot that could break through Mars ice!

 

Wishing everyone an enjoyable, relaxing end of spring break!