Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Wonderful Wednesday!!

Here are the ornaments we made yesterday. We put glitter paint into them and swirled around the paint:

We began the day telling a silly holiday story to our friends using adjectives! Wahkeen told us about Santa and used adjectives to describe his hat, suit, beard, and boots. Here we are:

We then discussed what stability means:

Afterwards, we watched a video about stability:

Structure stability

We watched another video that taught us how we know a structure is stable. We were given an example of a bridge and the importance of trusses that keeps the bridge balanced and therefore able to carry a heavy load:

What makes a structure stable?

After going through a powerpoint about the strength and stability of a structure, Strong and stable structures, we again defined stability as well as strength. This is what we have learned:

We were then off to the gym to practice for the Christmas concert. We did an excellent job being loud and evil villains!

After first recess and lunch, we played a doubles plus one game with skittles! We played this game with a partner. We rolled the dice and we would double the amount on the dice and then add 1 (3+3+1=7). We put a skittle if we got the answer.

Here we are having fun with math!:

After second recess and lunch, we finished playing our game and then we created our own gingerbread boy or girl, house, and discussed what we would run away from if we were a gingerbread boy or girl. Here they are:

Homework:

1. Read for 20 minutes
2. Sign rubrics (Teni)
3. Christmas concert tonight