Friendship Fruit Salad

This week we read some beautiful books on being thankful.  The children wrote and drew about things they are thankful for.  Then, square by square, Our Thankful Quilt was made.  We also went for a fall walk this week to collect leaves for an art project.  The colourful leaves were transformed into turkey feathers!  Gobble gobble.  Those are some adorable turkeys!  Today we made fruit salad and celebrated friendship and family.  Happy Thanksgiving!

Marshmallow Poppers

The marshmallow poppers are made from plastic cups and balloons.  We took them outside to experiment with force and motion.  First we used a little force by pulling the balloon back just a bit before launching.  Then we used a lot of force by pulling the balloon back as far as we could.  What do you think happened?

Then we had a competition to see who could launch their marshmallow the farthest.  Congratulations to Valentina whose marshmallow traveled almost forty (of Mrs. Russo's) feet.  Then we went inside to record our findings.

Science Made Fun

On Monday two scientists visited our classroom to teach us about force and motion.  The pom pom catapults were a blast!  We learned that the bigger the force the farther and faster they traveled.  We also dropped different objects into a vortex and compared how they moved.  The washers went around and around on their edges.  They coins when down faster because they were heavier.  We got to spin tops that had markers on their bottoms and follow their paths on paper. Science is FUN.