Happy Halloween!

Today we got to meet with our book buddies again. We played a roll a pumpkin game and Halloween charades with them. All you need is 2 dice and a paper and pencil to play the roll a pumpkin game, see below for the game.

The students were asked to come up with a Halloween costume for me. Their suggestions and reasons were great.

We have researched spiders and practiced our first piece of informational writing. We also created spiders that have fact families on their legs!
A big thank you to Hailey's dad who brought us some super fun treats!

Guest Author

Today we had an awesome guest author and illustrator come visit Addison. His name is
George O'Connor. He drew pictures of dinosaurs and shared facts about them. Then he read 2 of his books to us. 

Here is his official web page:
https://www.georgeoconnorbooks.com/

Magnets

This week we have has tons of fun with magnets. The students went to the Science Lab and explored what magnets would attract and what it felt like when they repelled. They learned about the magnets having a north and south pole . They made butterflies fly and got to play with magnetic slime. Ask your child what metal an object has to have in order for a magnet to be attracted to it.

For our STEM challenge the students were asked to design a maze. They had use a magnet to make a paperclip travel through their maze. They imagined, planned, created, and tested their designs. All of the students tested each maze and voted on their favorite to play. The most votes went to Finley and Caroline's design!

Measurement

Today we had a super fun Thinking Thursday challenge. The students were asked to use 1 piece of paper and create the longest paper chain they could. We compared our chains to see whose was the longest and shortest. If you would like to extend this activity at how, you can ask your child to create a new chain using what they learned and see if they can build a longer one. Or have a family challenge! We are practicing using words like longer than and shorter than as well as using nonstandard units of measure.