Next Wednesday, November 27th, (if the weather cooperates with us) Grades 1 and 2 will be going on a field trip to Nadahama Science Square from 12:00 - 14:45 as part of our unit on Inventions. Students will bring their lunches (we will take the school lunches with us as well) and we will eat them at a park nearby before visiting the museum. Should it rain, the trip will be postponed to the following week.
Invention Unit
We have been busy at work reading and researching important inventions and inventors in our unit on how our needs, interests and curiosity lead us to new discoveries and ideas. Next week, the students will start to plan their own invention which they feel can help others. If you have items at home which can be used for this project such as empty boxes, cylindrical cardboard containers, tubes, spools, and such, please feel free to have your child bring them in.
Also, if you have any old broken toys or other things around the house that the students might find interesting to open up and explore, please send them in by this Wednesday, November 27th.
Reading and Writing Procedures
To connect with our unit on inventions, the Grade 2 students have been spending some time looking at how procedures are organized and at reading and following procedures as well as doing some procedural writing of their own. To test their ability to follow a procedure the students had a chance to make chocolate milkshakes. It was a lot of fun and yummy!
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