Homemade Soil

Yesterday, we made homemade soil. We added pebbles, gravel, sand and silt. We also found out what humus was. Humas is made up of decayed plants and animals. Humus is in soil too! Today we separated our soil with screens, but we were left with a container that had a sand mixture in it. We put it into a vial, added water and we were able to separate it into different layers containing the humus, silt and sand. It was so cool!

Surprise! Thank You Mrs. Kershasky!

We kept it a secret! Mrs. Warner and Mrs. Atols brought a cake in to celebrate Mrs. Kershasky being our teacher for the past three months. Her last day is Friday, but we wanted to start the week our with a celebration. Thanks for helping us learn and grow Mrs. Kershasky!

Making Clay Beads

We worked with Earth's smallest material, clay. We made clay beads. We got to roll it, pound it and shape it into whatever we wanted for our bead. We even got to make cool patterns in it. We can't wait to paint it, string it and wear it home to show you!

Number-Patterns

We made number patterns adding by twos, threes, fours, fives and so forth. When we had enough ones to trade in for a group of ten, we put our noodles into a cup. Then, we wrote the new number with the amount of tens and ones.

Planning a Fiction Story

Today we got together with partners to bounce ideas off of them for a new fiction story. We had to come up with one character who had a problem. Then, we had to write about that character's journey to the solution. We can't wait to share our stories!

Sentences

We worked on making sentences in different rotations today. We had to make sure each of our sentences had a capital letter at the beginning and punctuation at the end. It was really fun how detailed we could be with our sentences including who, did what, when, and why.

Screening River Rocks

Today in Science, we explored different ways to separate a river rock mixture. At first, we used our hands, but then we used screens. We found out that if a rock was too large to go through a screen, it stayed on top of the screen. We were able to use three different screens. We are so excited to do more separating later in the week.