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Thank you, Mitsubishi!!!
Today our friends from Mitsubishi came to Kennedy for a Christmas party. We had goodies to snack on and each student received a gift. Our department was presented with a tremendously generous gift – a check for over $6000.00 from their hallway golf fundraiser!! There’s no way we can show how much we appreciate all that Mitsubishi does for us!!
Making Butter
This week we have been studying about Colonial America. We have been comparing life now with life then and how they did some of the same things that we do today, just in different ways.
cooking Thanksgiving dinner
We’ve been learning all week about Thanksgiving foods and today, for our culminating activity, we cooked Thanksgiving dinner and ate with our friends.
When we cooked,we did the following things (and more):
We cut with a knife.
We stirred with a spoon.
We poured.
We opened the can.
We put things in the bowl.
We turned the oven and stove on.
We put things in and took them out of the oven.
We measured.
We used the mixer.
We had fun!
We cooked turkey.
We cooked stuffing.
We cooked mashed potatoes.
We cooked green beans.
We cooked corn.
We cooked sweet potatoes.
We cooked gravy.
We cooked cranberry sauce.
We cooked rolls.
We cooked pumpkin pie.
This pie crust is full. This pie crust is empty.
Pumpkin Seeds
Today we participated in a pumpkin seed project. Mrs. Mays cut open the pumpkins and we scooped out the insides. After playing around in the squishy goodness, we picked out all of the seeds then we counted them together as a class.
We counted seeds from four different pumpkins – one was tall, one was short, one was big and one was little.
The LITTLE pumpkin weighed less than 1 pound and had 176 seeds.
The BIG pumpkin weighed 3.2 pounds and had 610 seeds.
The FAT pumpkin weighed 11 pounds and had 360 seeds.
The TALL pumpkin weighed 21 pounds and had 547 seeds.
After we got all of the seeds out, Mrs. Mays carved the pumpkins. Then we decorated our other two pumpkins with body parts sort of like Mr. Potato Head parts! Each student got to take home their parts so they can decorate a pumpkin at home. After lunch we had some Halloween snacks and Mrs. Mays gave us goody bags.
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Exploring simple machines
Firetruck
I see a firetruck.
The firetruck is red.
The firetruck is big.
It has a hose.
There is an ax.
The firefighter puts out fires.
He has boots.
He has a hat.
He is nice.
Inventions
This week we have been learning about inventors and inventions. We made a pop-up book about Thomas Edison, read stories about famous inventors and then did research to find out who invented different things. Here’s what we learned!
We also played a lotto game matching what things looked like when they were first invented with what they look like now.
Special Olympics
Early in the week, the weather looked like it was going to cause problems but it ended up being pretty nice!! The kids all did a great job and I’m very proud of them (as always).
Oreos
Today we stacked oreo cookies! First we counted how many each person could stack, then each student filled in a chart with the number of cookies they stacked. Then we took the chart and made a bar graph – one on the board and one on the computer. Then we looked at the graph to see who stacked the most, least, and who stacked the same amount as someone else. Finally we used a calculator to add up the numbers and divide by 11 to see what our class average was, and submitted it to the Oreo 2009 project website.
