Apples

  In first and second grade we are studying apples.  We learned what made apples turn brown.  We are doing an experiment.  We put 5 pieces of apple in a cup with water, a cup with oil, a cup with vinegar, and a cup with nothing.We made a prediction in our journal.  Which one do you predict will keep the apples white?
We will find out on Monday.

Questions about wolves

This week we are writing a scientific report about Grey Wolves. We have been doing lots of reading about them but thought it would be great to ask you some questions, as you have wolves near you. We don't get wolves in New Zealand at all.

Firstly, you mentioned in one of your posts about ranchers. What are ranchers?

Have any of you been to Yellowstone National Park? What is it like?

Have any of you actually seen a wolf? Can you describe it for us?

Have you seen wolves attacking your animals? What do you do about this? Are you allowed to shoot them?

What are your thoughts about wolves being reintroduced to Yellowstone Park? Are you for or against this? What are your reasons?

If you see wolves, where do you normally see them?

We will send some of our reports when they are finished, so that you can give us some feedback.
The Seniors

Chrome Books

    Hello! My name is Abby. Last month the 5th and 6th graders got Chrome books. Chrome books are like mini-laptops.We use them for many things such as  research, writing, Moby Max, and testing.

10 Apples up on Top!

In first and second grade, we have been doing several activities with apples.
First, we read the book by Theo. LeSieg called Ten Apples up on Top!
We checked to see how many apples we could stack on our table. Our predictions were not very close.  We tried different strategies and wrote in our journals. Then we tried to stack them on our heads.  Here are the pictures:

                   

The next day we had to design and build an apple carrier out of just a few materials, like pipe cleaners, cards, popsicle sticks, paper and straws.  We had to be able to carry at least three apples for ten steps.  It was fun. Tomorrow we are experimenting with rotting apples.

Our Art

Lately we have been studying optical art. We did the Fall-Aways, optical tunnels with a vanishing point, and we made the hand art that you made.

Echo the Gecko

Echo is our Leopard Gecko. Her head and tail are soft, but her body is rough. Geckos are ectothermic. They like their temperature around 80-90 oF

This Is Our Hamster, Peanut!

 

Peanut is a dwarf hamster and is two years old. She had five babies named Dorito,Walnut,Cheese,Speedo, and Cheeto. Do you have any class pets??

-Hannah