Week of October 22nd

This week was a busy week. We got to be Chemical Engineers. We were working for Creative Juices Company and surveyed consumers in our classroom to find out the best color for their strawberry orange juice. They made 3 colors for consumers to choose from and then graphed the results of what everyone chose. They then wrote a Product Research data report and then wrote a friendly letter to the President of the company to let her know our results. Ask your child what they discovered. Pictures of our Chemical engineers can be seen in this week's slide show. We also had Hands on Nature this week. We learned about beavers and muskrats. We talked about how they both adapt, dressed our UVM intern up as a beaver and got to test our teeth as a beaver chewing a tree (carrot) so it falls over and eating bark(chocolate) of of the branches (pretzels). Check out our pictures in the slideshow. I'd like to thank Colleen, Cecilia, Lynn and Caitlin for coming in and presenting the information and coordinating the fun activities!! This was our last week at the Imagination Playground. The class was very inventive this week. There were several vehicles made and some great beds for resting:) Photos are in the slideshow. In math we have learned about army, formica, leafcutter and harvester ants. We sung songs to learn about them and then recorded information about where they live, what they eat, what they look like and other interesting facts into an ant journal. We have then spent a couple of days solving ant problems. We will solve some more ant problems next week and then make our own ant problems. You'll get to see them at your child's conference. Please remember to sign up for conferences the week of Nov. 13th. You can access them on this blog or on our website. I am hoping families will come with their child so that your child will be able to share their portfolio of work with you. Have a great weekend, Nancy