Catapulting is a great way to see how we can make work easier. Lifting a Cheerio is very difficult, and we need a simple machine to help. The goal of today's lesson was to investigate if moving the location of the fulcrum affected the distance of the Cheerio.
Today during Writer's Workshop we read a story called, Each Kindness, written by Jacqueline Woodson. The main idea of the story was that even the small acts of kindness can change the world. After reading and discussing the story, each student was able to place a marble in a bowl of water and tell an act of kindness they have done. We watched the ripples of water and discussed how one act of kindness travels along way.
During science we investigated with how far an ice cube slides across different types of surfaces. The class realized that the rougher the material the ice cube traveled less. We have been discussing friction and how the rougher the surface, the more friction something has.
The students in the Bernabi Goes Green Cluster were discussing how to recycle, what to recycle, and what happens to things you recycle. They were fortunate enough to have a representative from The Department of Environmental Services to educate them on recycling. For example, if a number on the bottom of a product in the triangle is 5,6, or 7 it is recycled into fleece.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Congratulations to Oriana for her earning our Friendship Aware! She earned our Super Star Role Model Award last week!
Check out our Native American Tribal Posters. The class was split up into 5 groups to research and design a poster about their chosen tribe.
