Our New Document Camera!

 Today was most exciting for our writers!  They were able to present their published pieces of writing to their peers by using the document camera we just received from Donorschoose.org.  Each student presented his or her work to the class, pointing out the words they had written.  Others were able to ask questions and comment on the stories.  This document camera will see lots of use in our classrooms.

The class was also challenged by a puppet to show thirteen fingers or more.  The kids were quite vexed by this request until they were able to turn and talk with their partner to come up with a way to show a number of fingers in the teens.  We checked the numbers by first saying "ten," and then counting on from that number.  We learned it is much faster to start counting from your highest known quantity instead of starting from one.

The classes also participated in two apple science experiments.  One was to try to keep an apple from browning if it is cut.  The second was to discover what happens to an apple's mass when it is cut.  Ask your child about the results of these experiments.