Homophone Hunt

To learn about homophones the students went on a homophone egg hunt.  They had to find an egg and then find their partner that had the matching homophone.

Sound Stations

To end our unit on sound the students had a great time feeling and hearing different object vibrating.

Kedrick & Connor feel the vibrations with their rulers.

Billy uses a tuning fork to see and feel vibrations.

Ava hits a ping pong ball with a tuning fork to see what happens.

Justin and Jacob each made a ukele.

Billy and Jagger feel the vibrations on their popsicle sticks.

Reese uses a tuning fork.

Special Visitor

When Laura from Nature's Nursery came in to pick up our donations she brought along with her a special visitor.  Ferguson the Brown Bat was a hit.

Seuss-O

We also had fun wearing our cat in the hat hats, and playing Seuss-O with Dr. Seuss books!

Green Eggs and Ham

To end our Dr. Seuss unit, we had fun making green eggs and ham.  The students listened to the story Green Eggs and Ham and then had the opportunity to try them.  Surprisingly, most of the kids liked them! :)

Sound starts with Vibrations

On Wednesday we explored how all sound begin with vibrations.  The students had the opportunity to see, hear, and feel different sounds and their vibrations.  

Claire can feel the vibrations on her throat from her humming.

Matthew feel the vibrations.

Justin listens to the sound as he taps his water cup.

Jagger discovered the sound!

Connor and Maddi observe the vibrations in the water.

Blake taps his cup to see what happens.

Jesse strums the rubber band to feel and hear the vibrations.

Winter Weather

Yesterday we had the opportunity to enjoy the sunshine and go outside and observe who the winter season has changed our tree.