Gingerbread House Engineering

Last Friday the engineers of room 134 got to build gingerbread houses. It was such a fun afternoon!

Students were given materials and asked to build a house that could withstand an earthquake and a snowstorm. 

After building they brought there houses over for testing.

Snowstorm testing: 

Earthquake testing:

After they tested their house, they got paid! (3 small pieces or 1 big piece of candy from the bowl-- sorry mom & dad!)

Here are a few of the fabulous houses!

Thank you to our volunteers for helping to make it all happen! 

~Mrs. C

Migration

Today our class talked about migration. After reading about migration and viewing some videos of animals migrating, we took a journey as a class to experience migration ourselves. Here are some photos of us traveling from the north to the south:

After finding food back in the south (classroom), we created a poster of our learning:

~Mrs. C

PBL in K- Hibernation

Today learned about hibernation. We talked about different animals that hibernate and where they hibernate. We did our research by reading several books and using pebble go (an online research website for students). 

After doing some research we pretended to be animals that were hibernating for winter. It was so much fun! 

Afterward we created a poster to show our learning about animals that hibernate.

~Mrs. C

December is here!

Can you believe it?!? And wow, have we been busy in Room 134! 

Today at our Monday Morning Meeting the school got to see the jump rope club show off their skills. Some of our very own friends were their as turners and jumpers. It was so fun to see how far they've come with jump roping. 

Later that morning we voted on our favorite gingerbread story out of the ones we read last week. Here are the results:

This week we are also starting our mini PBL on winter animals. We are trying to answer the question: what do animals do during the winter to survive? Before we try to find the answers, we did a quick sort of some animals to see what we thought they do during winter. 

I can't wait to see what we learn and if any of our answers change. 

We are still in search of volunteers for two of our upcoming events. 

*This Friday, Dec 11, we will be building gingerbread houses from 2:15-3:35.

*Next Monday, Dec 14, we will be learning about animal adaptations that will be taught in a rotation station style from 2:15-3:35. 

If you would like to volunteer please see volunteer spot or send me an email.

~Mrs. C