End of Unit on Wind and Weather

We finished our unit on Air and Weather last week with blowing bubbles and flying our kites to studying wind direction and speed.  We had a wonderful time learning about air, wind, and weather.

So it was pretty hard to get pictures of the kites because the students were running around getting their kites to go even higher even though the wind was blowing them a pretty good bit :).  What a great time we had with this unit!!!

Grandparents Week

We had a GREAT lunch with our grandparents!!!

Exploring More Air

A couple of weeks ago we learned about making a system to learn about compressed air and air pressure. This wrapped up our unit on air and lead into discussing weather. We had a wonderful (and a little loud) time as we played tug of war and pop offs with our syringe systems.

Reading Time

A few pictures of our reading time and some of the students working on iPads.  The students really enjoy our "Reading Rocks" time and being able to have free reading time around the room. 

Parachutes!!!

Thursday we made parachute in class and on Friday we headed out to the playground to see if we could figure out how parachutes work.  The students did a wonderful job following the directions to make the parachutes and we had a great time experimenting to see which parachutes would keep our "guys" (aka paperclips) safe when landing. 

We discovered that air is all around the parachutes, not just under it.  We also learned that air resistance slows the parachute down to keep the "guys" safe when landing.