April 23, 2012

In science today we talked about hot and cold receptors and learned the basics of how senses send messages to brain.  We played the hand squeeze game (Like Telephone).  The students were linked in a chain.  The first child’s hand was squeezed a number of times and then they do it to the child next to them and so on.  It was fun to see what “message” the child at the end got.

We then then did a fun experiment as a class where each student got a piece of ice.  We touched different parts of our body with the ice for 20 seconds.  We discovered that the ice was the coldest on places like the sole of our foot and our lip, but not so bad on our elbow or fingernail.

In Math we played a game of spill and add.  The dumped red and yellow 2 sided counters on their desk.  They then added the number that landed yellow to the number that landed red.  They discovered the no matter what the sum didn't change.  It was always the total number of chips in their cup.  We then used the info they gathered to create the following fact family charts: