The Moon

The past two weeks we have been learning about the moon. We have used questioning to help us extend our thinking and develop our own opinion about whether we would like to visit the moon or not. After reading several books we discovered new vocabulary words like Lunar Rover, craters, and moon rocks. These words along with others furthered our understanding of the moon and created lots of questions that drove our learning. In addition to learning about what it's like on the moon, the students were taught about the various moon phases. The students thought is was very interesting how the moon orbits earth and how its angle in relation to the sun and earth determines its phase. I was very surprised by how many kids didn't want to go the moon when they wrote their opinion writing piece. The students used moon facts they had learned earlier in the week to help them support their reason as to why they would or would not want to go to the moon. Many kids used words like gravity, craters, moon rocks, lunar rover, and space suits to help support their opinions.


In math, we finished learning about length. The students participated in centers this week where they used various units to help them measure a variety of things. In groups, the kids worked collaboratively to compare and order the lengths of items from shortest to longest and longest to shortest. They also had to apply their knowledge of using a the starting line in order to accurately compare lengths.
                                             

We also made Valentine's bags for our valentines on Wednesday and made a delicious cupcakes thanks to our Bright Futures Sponsor Mrs. Johnson. The kids got to make their own batter by mixing the ingredients together for the cupcake and then they got to ice their cupcake.