Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Making blood!

To prepare for our circulatory test, the class made "blood" using hot tamales, corn syrup, marshmallows, and sprinkles. We reviewed the parts of blood using this fun activity!

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Finished cells and social studies

The class finished their plant cells in science and have starting working on the circulatory system this week.

Miss Briggs has finished the Native Americans project and are starting work on an Explorers unit where students are researching and creating captain's logs of their explorer's travels.

 

FINISHED CELLS!

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WRITING AND PRACTICING NATIVE AMERICAN SCRIPTS

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WORKING ON CAPTAINS' LOGS

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Monday, September 12, 2011

Cells

In preparation for our cells test and extra review, students have begun making plant and animal cell replicas!



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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Hyperbole and Multiplication

The class has been learning about figurative language. Here are some examples of hyperboles that they wrote and illustrated!

"I am madder than a bull!"

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"I read so much I thought my head would explode!"

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"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"

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In math, students have been playing multiplication games to help them learn more about multiplication! Here they are competing against each other in multiplication war.

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