Heavy Thinking

We started our morning meeting today with a new tool, clipboards!  We learned how to sit on the clipboards until it was time to use them.  Then everyone had to answer our sign in question:  What is heavier than a person?  The kids took out their clipboards and a scrap paper to draw what they thought would be heavier person.  They also tried writing their answers. Everyone shared their answer and we were all impressed with how many letter sounds the kids are capturing.

After lunch we picked out different objects in the classroom and used a pan balance to figure out which objects were heavier and which objects were lighter.  We learned that the heavy objects make the pan balance go down, lifting the lighter objects into the air.  We also learned that some objects that are big can be lighter than the smaller object it is compared to.

Now that we have some more time in the morning to do exploratory learning, the kids will have an opportunity to experiment with their questions regarding the pan balance.