Picture Post

Guess what? We can be in lots of places at once! Today we were at school, in our neighborhood, in the city of Phoenix, in the state of Arizona, in the country USA, on planet Earth, in space/the solar system. This was an introduction to our next Social Studies unit about our country. Later we collectively build a puzzle map of the United States.
We remembered that Columbus came on a boat to America a long time ago. So our loosely connected science lesson (also known as Friday fun), was making a boat using only a piece of tin foil and then testing to see if it floated and how many blocks it took to sink it. A few boats sunk right away or were a shape that couldn't hold blocks, so then they got to try making their boat into a different shape to improve it - that is what learning is about! Most boats took 0-8 blocks to sink, but one child's boat needed 28 blocks to sink it!
No pictures from our math field trip today, but here are a few pictures of Thursday's field trip INSIDE the new gym ("The best field trip ever" I heard). Ms. VP told us what the rooms were going to be.
Grades K-4 look pretty dwarfed by the high wall of our sunny, new gym!
Enjoy the weekend! See you all at Open House next week.