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!

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!



WRITING AND PRACTICING NATIVE AMERICAN SCRIPTS









WORKING ON CAPTAINS' LOGS

Cells

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

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!"



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



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



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.

Work, work, work!

Students have had a lot of fun this week using their own microscopes to look at the cells in an onion (yes, they really work!).











Also, they used "Versatiles" to practice their addition and subtraction facts!







And the most exciting thing from this week is our new student teacher, Miss Alyssa Briggs from Birmingham Southern College! She will be with our class until mid-October!

Mystery Slides

The class began using their microscopes this week! In this activity, students looked at several "mystery" slides that looked similar to see if they could figure out the item based on what it looked like under the microscope.

Comics and Magnifiers

Students have been learning all about magnifiers and how they work to make objects more detailed.  Next week we will begin looking at surfaces that cause magnification and using microscopes to view speciments. 

We also learning all about parts of speech using comics as part of the project.  It has certainly made grammar more exciting!