This week we saw changes in how the "big boxes" were being used.
Below are a few pictures of the boxes with added mail boxes and if you look close- laser beams!!
There are "laser beams" - yarn strung around each of the boxes and across the carpet for protection. A lot of role play and sneaking around came from this idea and it lasted a few days.
Earlier this week we read the book "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds which is about a little girl who thought she couldn't draw and was inspired by a simple dot she drew and an encouraging art teacher.
Sometimes we forget how hard it is to tackle something we don't think we are good at. This book is great for simplifying the idea of a task that can seem so overwhelming by taking the risk of simply "trying" and that just trying is good enough.
We then looked at some art by Kandinsky and noticed how a lot of the circles the girl in the story made were similar to Kandinsky's.
We tried to make our own "dot" art using coloured paper. We started with the outside circle and cut more -smaller each time using a different colour.
They tallied the results and most thought salt would melt the ice the fastest.
After lunch when we came back in there were no ice cubes left!
There was a lot of discussion about how when there is icy weather like the freezing rain or snow we just had that snowplows put salt on the road to help melt the ice. We saw this. Students decided that the ice all over the playground would definitely melt if we put salt all over it! Actually there was discussion about how sand and salt are put on the roads and the sand helps for tires gripping the pavement and not slipping. So next week we will be trying out sand and ice.
The most challenging part was making sure the circles we cut were big enough that another colour could go on top!
Stay tuned next week for the finished product on our board!
Then came a cool science experiment.
The question: Which ice cube will melt first?
We put one ice cube in each of 4 glass dishes.
Then we added something to 3 different dishes and left one just ice on its own.
One had salt added to it.
Another had lemon juice,
and the third had flour added to it.
Students then chose which one they thought would melt the fastest.
After 32 minutes we had our answer!
Above, students are joining in on a game of "POP" which is a game that helps them with learning how numbers can be represented like on our new number wall!
