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Sunday, January 31, 2016
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Project Lead the Way - Structure and Function
Hello!
It has been a long time since I've blogged about our days in Kindergarten! I hope you have all stayed connected through Seesaw, as that seems to be the easiest way to communicate our daily happenings at Osgood! Please let me know if you need help connecting to your child's online learning portfolio!
This month we've been doing some fun science and engineering projects focusing on Structure and Function. We read Jack and the Beanstalk and discussed the structure (what it looks like) of the beanstalk, as well as the function (what it does). Our challenge was to build the tallest beanstalk we could using the engineering and design process. We also worked on making the beanstalk strong enough to hold an egg. It was SO fun!
Here is a peek at the start of our project.
We also read The Three Little Pigs and discussed the structure and function of the houses that were built in the story. Once again, we used the engineering and design process to build a house that could withstand a strong gust of wind. Check out the videos!
Collaborating with our partners...
House of bricks
House of sticks
House of straw
This is such a fun time for the kids to be creative and collaborate with their peers. It is also SO FUN for me to step back and watch these smarties in action!
We will continue this coming week with a paintbrush design, and follow with Forces & Motion next week! Stay tuned!
It has been a long time since I've blogged about our days in Kindergarten! I hope you have all stayed connected through Seesaw, as that seems to be the easiest way to communicate our daily happenings at Osgood! Please let me know if you need help connecting to your child's online learning portfolio!
This month we've been doing some fun science and engineering projects focusing on Structure and Function. We read Jack and the Beanstalk and discussed the structure (what it looks like) of the beanstalk, as well as the function (what it does). Our challenge was to build the tallest beanstalk we could using the engineering and design process. We also worked on making the beanstalk strong enough to hold an egg. It was SO fun!
Here is a peek at the start of our project.
We also read The Three Little Pigs and discussed the structure and function of the houses that were built in the story. Once again, we used the engineering and design process to build a house that could withstand a strong gust of wind. Check out the videos!
Collaborating with our partners...
House of bricks
House of sticks
House of straw
This is such a fun time for the kids to be creative and collaborate with their peers. It is also SO FUN for me to step back and watch these smarties in action!
We will continue this coming week with a paintbrush design, and follow with Forces & Motion next week! Stay tuned!
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Weekly Update
Hello!
What a great week we had!
As I mentioned in our last post, we started learning more about science and what scientists do. We talked about asking questions and doing experiments. One of the books we read asked the question, does salt melt ice? Well, we decided to complete an experiment in order to answer the question, or draw our conclusion. Here's what we did!
We used two cups and put an ice cube into each cup. Our control cup only had the ice cube. The other cup had the ice cube and 1 teaspoon of salt.
While we observed the experiment we noticed that both cubes melted, but the cube with salt melted quicker.
We wrote about our experiment and made the conclusion that salt melts ice.
It was fun to be a scientist and we are looking forward to next week when we become engineers!
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Welcome 2016!
Hello families!
It is so good to be back in the swing of things here at school! We are recharged and ready to continue learning and getting ready for first grade.
We've already been busy this week with reviewing Text Connections as well as short vowel word families. One of our Daily 5 activities is spelling short vowel words so make sure to check out your child's Seesaw Journal! We are also practicing skip counting by 10s and reading numbers.
This week we are talking about science and what scientists do. Stay tuned for all the fun pictures and information on our science units coming soon!
I hope everyone had a nice break! Please see our January News below and let me know if you have any questions!
It is so good to be back in the swing of things here at school! We are recharged and ready to continue learning and getting ready for first grade.
We've already been busy this week with reviewing Text Connections as well as short vowel word families. One of our Daily 5 activities is spelling short vowel words so make sure to check out your child's Seesaw Journal! We are also practicing skip counting by 10s and reading numbers.
This week we are talking about science and what scientists do. Stay tuned for all the fun pictures and information on our science units coming soon!
I hope everyone had a nice break! Please see our January News below and let me know if you have any questions!
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