Langner's Letters: 2013

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Marshmallow Math

Project for the day: Create a 3D structure using marshmallows and toothpicks. We started with 4 bags of mini-marshmallows and 1,600 toothpicks for the class.

First we grouped our materials and counted. We used multiplication.

# per group x # of groups

We used no paper or pencil to do our math!

We know our 5's and 10's!!!

And then we really started designing!

Thursday, November 21, 2013

It takes a lot of scrubbing to remove the stain from an egg soaked in Coke.
What can Coke do over time to our teeth?
What will the 9 teaspoons of sugar do to our teeth?

By cutting soft drinks from our diet and making tooth-brushing part of our daily routine we can make some beautiful smiles!!

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Youtube

My youtube Channel

The above link will take you to my yoube.com channel. It has videos that I use in the classroom. Kids can feel free to use this as a safe place to access youtube, but should never be unsupervised. You cannot predict what the advertisements will be or the content on the side.

SLCSD youtube Channel

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Monday, October 14, 2013

Ant Observation & Websites for Research

PestWorld for Kids

National Geographic Ants

BioKids Ants

Enchanted Learning-ANts

Life Studies-Ants

Yahoo Voices-Ants

Fighting over sugar water!

Yummy Goldfish & sugar water breakfast for the ants on this Monday morning.

Students finished their observations today by drawing detailed pictures and writing about what they see. Many changes happened in the last week. More and more tunnels appeared, food was eaten and sand was moved out of the farm and into the spiral stairs on the outside of each farm.

As observations were completed today, we combined ant farms by connecting them with clear tubes. It is amazing to see them moving through the tubes to visit their neighbors!

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Leading them to their destiny!

What an amazing group of kids! We had many moments throughout the day today when we just stopped what we were doing an appreciated the moment. How many 7 & 8 year old's can do that and truly appreciate nature and their surroundings? We had our usual circle time in the middle of the prairie, most kids sharing how happy they were to just be there. All of us agreed if we could, we would just have school there everyday. We dreamed about what we could graph in math, what animals we could observe and what it would be like to be IN the prairie everyday.
As we hiked through the woods, we came upon a pioneer cemetery. The students were all so quiet and respectful. We paused to consider how life was different for the settlers in the 1870's. As we left Celeste gave a sweet wave and told them goodbye.

There were many moments throughout the day like that sweet wave from Celeste. I don't know who was behind me as I hiked up the big hill, but a boy was talking about his destiny. Someone else shouted, "She's leading us to our destiny!" with such feeling it brought tears to my eyes. What amazing, thoughtful kids you have all trusted to me. This is a special group. Thank you parents for letting me have this time with them. I feel pretty blessed.