Sunday, October 16, 2016

Scary Readers Theater, Bake for Good, and Foil Boats


Scary Readers Theater
During the month of October, students are practicing their reading fluency using scary readers theater plays. Since Halloween also occurs this month, I will let them dress up for these skits and use props.  I will film their performances and then they will watch the movies as part of our classroom Halloween celebration. They are currently in rehearsal mode...


Bake for Good
On Wednesday, the 4th and 5th grade classes attended an assembly that was hosted by King Arthur Flour.  October is Bake for Good month and we enlisted the 4th and 5th graders to help King Arthur Flour provide food for families in the Upper Valley.  After a demonstration on how to make bread, each student was given a bag of ingredients to take home that will enable them to make 2 loaves of bread; one is for them to keep, and the other is to bring back to school for King Arthur to donate to Willing Hands, which is a local organization that provides food to families in need. This has been a great lesson in philanthropy, community service, and baking!  Please remind your child to bring back their loaf of bread on Monday.

PAW Squad helpers demonstrating how to make dough.
Tossing pizza dough!

PAW Squad helpers handing out ingredients to bake bread.

Foil Boats
In science, students are learning about what it means to be an engineer.  One of the things they learned was that engineers solve problems.  So... I posed the following problem to them:  Pennies won't float when put in water by themselves; please build a boat made out of tin foil to see how many pennies you can get to float in the boat at one time.  They were only allowed to use tin foil, pennies, and a tub filled with water.  They made some very creative boats!  They had time for 2 trials and learned that their second foil boats held many more pennies.  We had an interesting science discussion about why this was true for the second boat each group made and how this relates to engineering. Our classroom was very wet after this investigation, but oh what fun we had!

Here are the boats from the 2nd trial which held more pennies.
























No comments:

Post a Comment