Air and Weather - Science

During this unit, students will:

• develop an interest in air and weather
• experience air as a gas that takes up space and can be compressed into a smaller space
• observe the force of air pressure pushing on objects and materials
• observe and compare how moving air interacts with objects
• observe, describe, and record changes that occur in weather from day to day and across seasons
• learn that the sun warms the land, air and water
• become familiar with instruments used by meteorologists to monitor and measure air and weather conditions
• compare monthly seasonal weather conditions, using bar graphs
• record and communicate data with pictures, numbers and words, and graphs
• acquire vocabulary associated with properties of air and weather conditions

Click here to see pictures of our parachute investigation. Air resistance

Click here to see pictures of our Pop-Off investigation. Air Pressure

Happy Valentine's Day!

We just loved celebrating the Valentine's Day at school.  Everyone wrote cards to all the students in the classroom.  We made beautiful boxes to put our cards into.  On Valentine's Day, we sat together in groups and opened our cards and ate heart shape cookies with punch!  What a LOVELY day!

Check out the pictures!

Writing Celebration - How to Books

It has been so much fun to learn about nonficiton books.  In writing, we learned how to write How-To-Books.  We thought about different things that we were experts on, then we picked one to write about.  We had to think of a few things:

• The Title
• What we needed
• The steps
• and one of the best parts, the WARNING!

The kids wrote amazing books.  They taught their friends how to draw butterflies, draw an alien, make a paper plane, make pancakes, make a peanut butter sandwich, how to throw a football and much more.  Soon they will be taking these books home.  We then chose one piece to "fancy it up".  We shared out books in our class and toasted to great ideas, clear steps, and good detailed drawings.

Click here to see some pictures of our Celebration.