Sunday, February 19, 2012

Friends, Science, Presidents, and New Centers...Oh My!

I am SO excited for this upcoming week at school!  We will be starting all new centers, continuing our work with money, and beginning a three week unit on Presidents!

I have a few pictures of some of our work from last week.  First up is are some shots of the boys and girls working in the "Friendship Writing Journals".  I have been using the month of February, and Valentine's Day, as   an opportunity to talk about our good friends and ways to be a good friend.  I also posted a few pictures from our experiments that we did to learn more about physical and chemical changes.
We have been spending our writing block  working in our "February Friends" Journals.

Brainstorming adjectives to describe our friends.
We have been working hard to expand our adjectives vocabulary away  from  words like "nice" or "good".
We predicted which changes would be chemical or physical.  After doing the experiment, we determined if our prediction was correct and then moved the Post-It if we needed to.
Our mini science lab with a few of the physical and chemical change experiments we are still keeping an eye on.
Almost all of us said that this was a chemical  change because you can't take the salt out of the water.  We're going to keep an eye on it for a few days.  I can't wait for the discussion we will have about evaporation after this experiment has run its course!


 I hope everyone is having a great weekend!  Enjoy your day off tomorrow!





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