Summer is over here for us in the Red Snail Classroom. Classes resumed here for us here in the classroom on the 14 of September. We are on the pacific coast, so our summers are a bit different than those in the south, or even the east coast. We tend to take our summer a bit later than most, but that hasn't stopped us from learning throughout. Here's what we've been up to in the classroom lately, through summer and the start of a new school year.
We learned about kinetic and potential energy. We also touched on different shapes and learned that there are shapes all around us. You can print out a shapes coloring page here.
Our Kiwi Crate came in for the month of July and this month the theme was bugs and insects.
We created an insect tic-tac-toe board and some flying dragonflies.
We learned how far a grasshopper can jump. We placed tape on the floor of Skylar's body length and had him try to jump that distance. It was hard, but super fun!
We did some gardening the first week and learned what the difference is in leaves of strawberries.
We learned about color science. Part of another Kiwi Crate.
This is a great project and can be done without a kit. Use pudding or jello cups and white napkins. Place food coloring drops in each cup and watch the color rainbows happen.
Kiwi Crate is amazing when it comes to incorporating lessons into our regular studies.
This one above was about counting money and was to raise money, even large amounts.
The lemonade stand sign was Skylar's favorite.
We also made a fish lantern.
He also put together a sail boat to learn about movement.
Skylar had a lot of fun with these past three kits!
We also experimented with a solar oven over the summer. Thanks to all of the dry heat here and the sun shining away on us several days in a row, we were able to cook quite a lot of goodies and play with the solar oven to see how long the sun would cook certain items.
We reviewed our four times tables. This year we will venture into sixes, sevens, eights and nines.
We also did a little science studies with Styrofoam and corn packing peanuts.
He wrote down what he thought would happen, what was happening, and what happened in the end.
This is a great project to do to stuff the great possibilities of corn-made packing peanuts over Styrofoam ones.
I saw a good marker organization idea on Pinterest a few weeks ago and decided to implement it into the classroom this year. It's working great so far.
We put a new star in the classroom too and it's a nice nightlight at night too!
As for Skylar's fifth grade, he took his state test and is now a sixth grader. We are excited to get our school year started and the first few weeks have all gone so great! Here's to another great year!
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