Magnets and Motion

   We've done a lot with magnets this week! I will put captioned under the pictures so you can tell what we were doing. :)

These kids are testing to see what is magnetic.
We discovered that things that have iron in them are magnetic!

This picture shows a big magnet bulling the two ball magnets closer to it.

 We have also been studying Mo Willems. He is a WONDERFUL author and the kids think his books are soooo funny. His Knuffle Bunny books have the backgrounds as black and white photographs and the people are the only color. The kids made their own pages for where they would take their Knuffle Bunny!

Knuffle Bunny and I went to the white house.
We saw Barack Obama. We got to play in the water fountain.
We had so much fun. We saw his two kids and his wife and his dog.
He was nice. He bought us food.
His house is nice.

Knuffle Bunny and I went to the white house. We met Barack Obama
and his two kids and his wife. We heard his speech.

Knuffle Bunny and I went to my house.
We played with my truck.

Knuffle Bunny and I went to my house.
We played Barbie.
We watched TV.
We watched Harry Potter.

Exploring how magnets attract and repel.

Showing how the big magnet was the strongest. 

The big magnet is the strongest because it attracted the most
paper clips.

We are 100 Days Smarter!

       In science we have been learning about force and motion. We did an experiment with ramps and balls. The kids experimented with different size and weights of balls and tried to see which one would move a toy truck the farthest when we rolled them down a ramp.

Measuring how far the truck went

      At the beginning of the week the kids brainstormed what good writing looks like. We will be using this as a starting point for mini-lessons on good writing.

       Because Martin Luther King Jr. Day was a holiday for our school we did some activities before the weekend. We read books all week and then on Thursday the kids finished the prompt "I have a dream that....". Friday morning they made their own Martin Luther King Jr. pictures.  

      Thanks to our WONDERFUL PTO we were able to go to a play at the Civic Center. The kids were SO great and had a wonderful time!

The 100th day we had kids dress up as what they thought they would look like when they are 100. Some of them looked pretty great!! 

It's hard to tell but his hair is gray too!

Love the beards!

Making 10 groups of 10 to make 100