Thursday, February 26, 2009

That's How The Cookie Rolls

It's the rolling of the Oreo! (I bet you didn't think you could do so many things with an Oreo?) The students made predictions of how far they could roll an Oreo. After 2 attempts we added an incline plane.


The kids were excited to see how much farther their Oreos rolled using an incline plane.




Sink or Float

Will the Oreo float or sink? The students wrote their question, made a prediction, made a plan of action & conducted the experiment. Then they recorded their conclusion.










Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Get Fit Day

We used our water bottles to lift weights on GET FIT DAY. We needed to build up our muscles before we lifted our Oreos into our mouths. Tomorrow we will conducting an Oreo float or sink experiment.












Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Haiku

Here are a few samples of Oreo Haiku's the kids wrote today.
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Oreos are black
They are very delicious
I take them apart

by Jessica

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Oreos are good
I like to dunk them in milk
I like to eat them

by Keegan

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Oreos are good
Presidents like to eat them
They are double stuffed

by Adelyn

Monday, February 23, 2009

Oreo Days

In reviewing our last few posts it seems that all we do is eat. We actually DO use the food for educational purposes. Although all students did get to enjoy one Oreo cookie today. Today was the first day of our Weekly Oreo activities. We focused on several math concepts today, such as, prediction, tally charts, subtraction, addition & a little multiplication was throw in as well. The following pictures will show students making predictions of how many Oreos they can stack, while their partner fills in a tally chart.


Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Valentine's Day Party

Here are a few pictures from our Valentine party. The kids played lots of games, opened their Valentine cards and ate plenty of food! Below is a picture of Anna with her mom.



He is wearing his Valentine necklace we made in class. He's lucky he didn't use a chocolate heart in his necklace. The chocolate hearts didn't last very long once the kids put them on. Their body heat is all the chocolate needed to start melting. Lesson learned.











Limo Ride

Faith and Jordan won a limo ride to lunch and a cruise around town. They were top sellers in the school fundraiser. "It was the best day of my life!" Jordan.
Faith said she felt like a superstar riding around town in a limo.






Thursday, February 5, 2009

100's Day

Kids always enjoy celebrating 100's day. We celebrated by counting our snacks. The kids experimented on different ways to count their snack. Some started by counting by 1's and soon realized that wasn't the best way to count all their food items. Most kids finally organized their food into groups of 5's and 10's.

David organized his food in groups of tens.





Mrs. Wells came in to help us count our snacks.