Tower Power!

This year we will be learning all about engineers.  As engineers we will be solving problems from all over the world with our friends, India and Jacob.  India and Jacob are the children in our science curriculum, Engineering Adventures.  They taught us that engineers are problem solvers, "they're people who design things that make our lives better, easier, and more fun."  Our first engineering challenge was to create a tower.  The tower had to be 10 inches tall to protect our frog from the alligators below.

Signs of Fall

Every morning during calendar time we check Wonderopolis for the Wonder of the Day.  With it being the first day of fall we found a past wonder, Why do leaves change color in autumn?  We watched a time lapse video and discussed what we observed.  Later in the afternoon we went on an expedition searching for signs of fall.  We discovered many of our trees at school were already changing colors.  The leaves we observed were red, yellow, orange, green, brown, and even purple.  One of the trees looked like it had already lost all of its leaves however, there were no leaves on the ground.  Some friends suggested maybe that tree is just "bald." :)  Once we finished our observations and collected many signs of fall we brought our findings back to the classroom and created projects.  One of the fall changes we discussed was the change in weather.  For now we are enjoying the nice warm weather, hoping it stays around for a few more weeks!  

Happy Fall!!!

               

First Days

The first days of school were a blur!  We had so much to learn and so many new people to meet.  We went to stations around the school and learned about our bee expectations at each one.  We know to bee respectful, bee responsible, and bee safe everywhere in our school.  We also discovered a new friend named the quiet fox.  We made quiet fox headbands and know that if a friend is being noisy, instead of telling them to be quiet and being loud ourselves we can show them our quiet fox.  After our staggered start days we got to know all of our new friends, we have 23 friends this year!  Here are some pictures of us exploring the classroom and our iPads.