This morning, we finished our snowman cards and wrote the final draft of our winter poems. The students made a second copy of their poem for you. I will send them home right before winter break. We also met our newest Quirkle, Gilbert Gas.
We explored carbon dioxide is both gas and solid forms. The students wrote their hypothesis and recorded their observations as we added salt to a bottle of soda pop with a balloon covering the top of the bottle. Ask your child to show you their science log sheet to find out their conclusion.
Next, we explored carbon dioxide in solid form, dry ice. There are few things that are quite as exciting as dry ice....
except maybe, dry ice and dish soap...
Bubbles and strange, cold gas.... does it get any better than this?
In the afternoon, we had a chance to meet some of our "pen pals." Mrs. Lee's kindergarten class in Honolulu, Hawaii joined us via Skype.
We found out our schools are about the same size and they have art, music and PE class too. It is warmer there, (75 degrees today) and they never get snow!
Their school has it's own swimming pool and they get swimming lessons at school! They also have a drama class and put on a play in the spring of the year.
We learned some of the students have banana trees and mango trees in their yard and that it does not get cold enough for apples to grow there. We also found out we have a lot in common with the Hawaiian kids. We are all losing or beginning to lose teeth. We all like to sing songs. We love field trips and chicken nugget days at school.
We are learning that through technology, our world is not such a big place. We are within reach of others around the globe and we have many things in common with them and many things we can learn from them. This is the beginning of digital citizenship.
Next we opened some of the cards we have received from other schools including ones in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Kansas, Arizona, Florida and Ontario, Canada. We used a USA atlas and located Hawaii and the other states on the map of North America. Many more will arrive in the days ahead.
Like I said, it was a busy day! :-)
Dear Mrs. Koch,
ReplyDeleteI love doing our quirkle experiments. My favorite one is Gilbert Gas, because when you put water in there all the gas started coming out and then when you put ice in there it started to make bubbles.
I enjoyed writing letters to the other kids. I hope they like our letters. It will be fun to read the letters from the other kids.
Abigayle
Dear Abigayle,
ReplyDeleteWhat a great, "quality comment!" I'm glad you enjoyed Gilbert. Wait until you meet Ronnie Rock. He is a lot of fun.
Carbon dioxide sounds pretty boring, but it does some really amazing things. Did you know it helps to form the caves we have here in Missouri?
Mrs. Lee and her class commented on the E day Snowman Animoto. You will have to go and read it. She said her students had a truck load of snow brought in so they could play in it. How cool is that?
Have a great weekend!