Monday, November 21, 2016
Four Winds
Friday afternoon we had some wonderful parent volunteers with the Four Winds nature program come in to teach us about leaves!
Turkeys
As a school-wide project UMS students took a little bit of time each day to think about and discuss what they are grateful for. On Friday we read about and discussed what Thanksgiving is and in the afternoon we made some turkeys!
Friday, November 11, 2016
Solids and Liquids
We have been learning about solids and liquids this month and created this padlet to show some of what we have learned about what makes something a solid or liquid!
Election Day part 2
On election day we wrapped up our learning about voting by reading the books Duck for President and Grace for President, charting reasons each of them would be a good candidate, then voting! Grace won in our classroom election. Our hallway bulletin board shows our writing about what kids would do if they were president as well as our duck presidents!
Monday, November 7, 2016
Election Day Part 1!
Today we learned lots more about what a president is and the voting process in class! We read more about presidents and the students wrote what they would do if they were the president. We also read more about voting and students created their own voter registration cards. We then used our classroom voting booth to cast ballots for our favorite cookie (Oreo or chocolate chip -- I mean, really you can't go wrong).
Mrs. Levi and I brought chocolate chip and Oreo cookies in to class but we made it clear that we were going to have a fair election and only the winning cookie would be eaten. This helped students with the understanding that, in an election, even if their chosen "candidate" isn't the winner we all go with the choice made by the majority.
We had a tight race, as you can see from the ballot data we charted, but Oreo came out the winner. We charted and discussed our election results then ended our lesson with a cookie!
Tomorrow we will read the books Duck for President and Grace for President then use our voting booth one more time to vote between the two storybook candidates for president.
Mrs. Levi and I brought chocolate chip and Oreo cookies in to class but we made it clear that we were going to have a fair election and only the winning cookie would be eaten. This helped students with the understanding that, in an election, even if their chosen "candidate" isn't the winner we all go with the choice made by the majority.
We had a tight race, as you can see from the ballot data we charted, but Oreo came out the winner. We charted and discussed our election results then ended our lesson with a cookie!
Tomorrow we will read the books Duck for President and Grace for President then use our voting booth one more time to vote between the two storybook candidates for president.
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