February 2012

Science Centers on Space

Field Trip to the Planetarium

Art Field Trip to Gala in Yomitan

Moon Phases With Oreo Cookies

Our Chapel Presentation

Art Field Trip Video

January 2012

We are illustrating the meanings of our new vocabulary words. The students broke into groups to make posters to help us remember what these new words mean.

December 2011

Christmas Party: Minute 2 Win It

In America there is a game show called Minute to Win It. The contestants have to play challenging games using household items and they only have 1 minutes to do it. We played a Christmas version of this game during our Christmas party.

• Nut Stacker - the students had to stack 4 metal nuts on top of each other without falling in under 1 minute. It proved  to be not impossible, but rather challenging.
• Christmas Ornament Balance - they had to hang Christmas ornaments on opposite ends of the meter stick and balance them on a tube in less than 1 minute. They had to have at least 3 on each side.
• Christmas Cup Stack - they had to stack all of the cups in the shape of a Christmas tree using only 1 hand in under 1 minute.

November 2011

The Great Turkey Escape

As fun way to celebrate Thanksgiving we made comic strips of how the turkeys try to escape the Thanksgiving Day feast. The students had to use the new vocabulary words we were learning in their comics.

Thanksgiving Day

We celebrated Thanksgiving with friends, family, and A LOT of food. We also make chalkboard graffiti of all the things we were thankful for.

October 2011

Layers of Learning

While studying rocks and fossils we learned that the process of deposition results in layers of various sediments. To model this process we had some dessert catastrophes that resulted in "layers" of many different sediments. The end result was a tasty illustration of how rocks eventually become sedimentary rocks.

September 2011

History: Making Cuneiform Tablets

In social studies we have been learning about ancient civilizations. We recently read about how the Ancient Sumerians developed a type of writing called cuneiform. They would use wet clay from the river and form it into tablets. They would then use a stylus made from a stick to press their writing into the clay. The students got a chance to see what it was like to write in Ancient Sumer. Check back later after we make our mummy! We are studying about Egypt also.

Science: What Makes Wind?

In science we have been trying to answer the question,"What makes wind?" We did several experiments to better understand air and how it works. We learned that air takes up space, it has weight, and also that it has pressure. The students learned that wind is caused when warm air rises and causes an area of low pressure. The cold air then moves in and that is what causes wind. As we gain a better understanding of weather, we hope to do even more experiments.

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