The Wonder of Snow

Rain, rain and rain throughout the night. Then a bit of sleet mixed in on my way to school. When the students arrived, there were noticeable flakes on their hats and jackets. We started our day. Frequent glances out the classroom windows reminded us that the masterful Creator can turn a dreary brown day into a winter wonderland in just a matter of minutes. The flakes grew larger and larger. The playground turned to white. The parking lot became slippery and plows went to work. Finally, we were told that school would dismiss at 12:30. We completed our work, wrote in our planners, and took a quick trip outside for a class picture. SMILE. God gave us another beautiful memory for winter 2009-2010 in Edmond, Oklahoma!

Phases Of An Oreo Cookie

What do cookies have to do with our current unit study of the moon? PLENTY! Take a paper plate, 8 Oreos, 2 friends, a "blob" of icing, yellow highlighter, a black sharpie, and plastic knife----put them all together, and you've aptly illustrated the 8 PHASES OF THE MOON! You may be thinking, "Did the kids eat "the phases?" No, they did not. Rather, one of the friends took the model home to show their family and EVERYONE enjoyed two fresh Oreos.

Just in case you don't recall the 8 phases, here they are: New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, and Waning Crescent.

Book Buddies Celebrate One Hundred Days!

What a treat celebrating One Hundred Days with our Book Buddies! Each first grader brought a bag of 100 items to school today. They made a decision to share them with us. There were cool squiggly straws, dinosaurs, life savers, foam shapes, chocolate candy, and taffy just to name a few. Then our class read books about great Americans to the first graders to help them prepare for their upcoming "Great American" reports. We LOVED it!

Moon Mania

Fine moon models by Josh and Peyton.

We created salt dough models of the moon. Each models contains 4 landforms including a maria, a rill, a crater, and a mountain. This is Kelsey's model.

Ben and Josh are deciding how much they would weigh on the moon compared to the earth. They divided their earth weight by 6 to get the answer

Bailey, Maddie, and Brandon are figuring out how less gravity on the moon will effect the distance they toss a bean bag.

Riley is measuring how far a bean bag is tossed in feet and multiplying that distance by 6 to determine the distance it would have been if thrown on the moon.