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Friday was a chaotic, but fun-filled day! We made memories all day and would love to share pictures of the day and the activities we got to explore. The first station was exploring VR (virtual reality) goggles with Mrs. Utley. They got to see the view from a human's eye, and then from an animal's eye. The next station was working with cups and towers. The kids were to build towers with the cups the traditional way (with their hands), followed by using a rubber band and 4 strings. Each student held a string, but they had to work together to pull their strings to get them around the cup, then give a little so that the rubber band grabs the cup, and they can move/stack the cups. Many tried, and worked Incredibly well together, but only Alex, Vienna, Chase, and Reegan were able to do the challenge. The next activity was the water room. They kids got to participate in 3 different activities related to water. One had them making an estimate on how many drops of water fit on the various coins, followed by testing it out. The next had students making a prediction as to whether items would sink or float in water, then testing it out. And the last activity had the students building a boat out of aluminum foil, followed by putting it in water to see how many pennies it would take to make it sink. Reegan won the challenge with 80 pennies! The next activity was learning about animal tracks. We got to read about book on Raz Kids about animal tracks, explore in flour with various rubber tracks (followed by using a magnifying glasses to check out the tracks in detail, and finally read on iPads by scanning QR codes to a bunch of stories dealing with animals and their tracks. It was a very messy, but fun activity! Next, we went to learn about constellations, where we turned off the lights to search (with flashlights) for letters to solve a riddle. Then the kids got to build their own constellations with marshmallows and toothpicks. The last activity for the day was a lego center. We watched a video on how Legos are made, and then got to play with Legos and other S.T.E.M. centers within the classroom. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of this, but they were SUPER engaged and seem excited for the next time we get to pull these centers out!
Thank you for checking in! Happy Monday, and have a great rest of your week!!
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Mrs. KattreI'm a 7th year teacher, with a family of three. Join me on this journey as we learn together and grow together. Archives
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