Langner's Letters: April 2013

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Time for Pie

The top 3 mud pies are shown above. Each class member voted on the BEST one. The pie on the bottom was the winner. It contained more sand than the others and remained stuck together.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Mud Pie Monday!

Everybody lined up to get their soil for their mud pie recipe.

Soils were mixed together.

Water was added and carefully incorporated.
(Waxed paper rips easily!)

Mud pies were shaped.

And...delivered to the drying table. Tomorrow we will decide who has the BEST mud PIE!

Friday, April 26, 2013

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/science/earth-sci/vietnam-mammoth-cave/

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/specials/nat-geo-live-specials/peter-lecture-nglive/

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/the-magazine/behind-the-photo/ngm-alvarez-surprise-pit-btp/

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Beaunification Day/Earth Day

1st and 2nd grade students volunteered today with the help of teachers, administration, BVU staff & BVU students to make meals for families in need. Kids worked an assembly line to make rice bagged meals. They will be distributed in Storm Lake, Sioux Rapids & Alta.

Come Take a Romp in the Swamp!

We are under construction in our room! We have just completed the fabulous & exciting book Chomp by Carl Hiaasen. It is about a pair of kids on a wild adventure through the Florida Everglades. There are some crazy characters complicating things for them along the way. The book prompted great discussions about bullying & kindness to others-no matter what your first impression is of them. The 2 main characters were independent thinking kids who showed how to make tough decisions and stick with your friends. We are sad the book had to end...so we will continue to live it- in our own Everglades right in the corner of our room. Stop by and visit!! More pictures to come!

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Animals....

Mastiff Bat

Florida Panther

Alligator

Alligator Hatchlings

Settling Cups

Setting up the settling cups

Sand-Clay-Loam

And....22 hours later

Clay-Loam-Sand

Following our settling cups observations today, kids noticed that the particle size of the clay had greatly reduced. We talked about uses for clay, and how water would be needed. Storm Lake used to have a brick factory, using clay from our lake to make the bricks. Joshua gave it a try!