Friday, October 23, 2015

Rolling, Rolling

This week in science we started investigating a new motion...rolling.  The students were given "wheels and axles" and had to put them together in a way that will make them roll down a ramp.


Then the students were given challenges like making the wheels wobble and making them roll to one side using a smaller wheel.

We started our new unit, Place Value, in math this week. To practice Place Value we played some math games.  


Our essential question this week was "How do animals survive?"  We read about a second grade class that visited the swamp and learned about how the swamp animals adapt to their habitat.  We practiced finding the beginning, middle and end of a story.

Thank you for your help by sending in the Halloween pictures for our writing project this week.  The topic of our writing assignment was "The Best Costume Ever."  We had to support our opinion with reasons why we thought this costume was the best.  Here's a glimpse of the costume I used....


Have a great weekend.