WE NEED H2O! NOT REALLY, JUST THE BOTTLES...

We are in need of at least 25 empty plastic water bottles to be used for a design challenge in a week or so.  We will be reading the book The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle and then the kids will be designing a structure from their own plastic bottle.  Their bottles will be used to create either a supporting, transporting, containing, sheltering, or directing structure.


Also, we are in need of some 3M Command Hooks with silver hooks to support our ever-growing, but not yet hanging, reading web. 

Lastly, we are still in need of old magazines for to be used for cutting pictures out of for various writing and engineering activities.

STAR SCIENTIST

Brooke Bailey is our first Star Scientist and she did a wonderful job reading the book Pinkalicious to the class today.  She was loud and clear.  She read fluently and with expression.  You could tell that she had read this before!  What a wonderful model for us to learn from!  I tried to grab my camera to take a few pictures, but realized that I had left it at home.  The good thing is I happened to have the Flip camera, so.....

Here is a small clip of Brooke reading Pinkalicious to the class.  You may have to turn up the sound.  I was kind of far away from her.  It's only about a minute long.  Enjoy.  And great job Brooke!

HARDY HAPPENINGS

Click below to read the Hardy Happening newsletter for the week of Oct. 9, 2011.

Hardy Happenings Week of Oct. 9

WE GOT WORMS!

On Thursday our red worms were delivered and we couldn't help but investigate them for a while before we put them into our classroom compost bin.  The kids fed their curiosity by observing and recording information about their worms after, naming them of course.  The kids drew diagrams, measured the worms, wrote general observations and conducted small experiments such as, recording the worms' reactions light and water.  Be sure to ask your students questions like:

What is a worm's role a compost pile?

What are the body parts on a worm?

Did your worm like light or dark?  Why do you think?

Did your worm like wet or dry?  Why do you think?

Why did we decide to use centimeters to measure our worms, instead of inches?

Did you enjoy the observations?  What was your favorite part?

Also, enjoy the pictures!

Mr. H

INVESTIGATION FAMILY LETTER II

Click the link below to read the latest Investigations Family Letter.

Family Letter

STAR SCIENTIST BEGINS NEXT WEEK

We will begin learning about each of our Star Scientists in depth next week.  This week I am the Star Scientist and am modeling the types of things expected of the students coming up.  Please be sure to click the links below to find out more information about how Star Scientist will work and to see when it is your Scientist's time to shine!


Star Scientist Information
Star Scientist Schedule

Please let me know if you have questions.

Mr. H

HARDY HAPPENINGS

Hardy Happening Newsletter Week of Oct. 3