Freedom Week

Freedom Week Sept. 21-25th

This week we are looking at different symbols of our country! So far today we focused on the United States Flag. We learned the flag has 13 strips (7 red and 6 white). These stripes represent the first 13 colonies! If you notice there are also 50 white stars on a blue background. The 50 stars all represent the 50 states! (That's right...Arkansas has its very own star!) We plan to look more into other symbols but today we really focused on the flag and our Pledge of Allegiance. We have decided as a class that we realize many boys, girls, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, wives, and many more have sacrificed their loved one so that we could have freedom. Freedom to come to school, wear what we want, eat what we want, drink what we want, go to church, not go to church, and so much more! We want to first of all say THANK YOU to all the men and women present day, past, and future who have served or will serve our country! Our words could not say thank you enough! 

Here are a few questions to see if you can help us out:

1. Does anyone know which star belongs to AR on the flag?
2. How many stars were on the first American Flag?
3. Can anyone share a neat war story or memory of time during the war?
4. If you had to give up one freedom...what freedom would you be willing to sacrifice?

Welcome back!

Today I am sitting down with my new Third Grade class!!! That's right I no longer teach Second Grade, instead I got to move up with a great group of kiddos to 3rd Grade. So here we are....starting a brand new adventure! Here is a little catch up of what we have been learning in our second week back at school!


Science: 
Last week, we got to do a science experiment with Meal Worms! (P.S. Ms. Race did not enjoy having all those meal worms in her room but she survived!) We even got the chance to get them out and play with them! We measured them in length, counted their legs, and now we are waiting on them to cocoon and become a black beetle. A few of us have had the chance to take ours home so we are watching from home!

This week, we dove right into the Animal Kingdom! We are looking at vertebrates and invertebrates. Here is your question to answer....

Are there more vertebrates or invertebrates??? 

(Feel free to comment below if you know the answer) 

As we learn more this week we will try to get you posted but here are a few fun educational questions for you to see if you can answer and we don't have the answers....

1. How long does it take a Meal Worm to cocoon?

2. If there are more invertebrates or vertebrates...how many more of the one with the most are there in our world today? Is there a big difference in the number of each?

3. How long is the average Meal Worm?

4. How many different types of vertebrates exist?

5. How many invertebrates are cold-blooded?

We hope you are able to help us out! Please come visit our blog weekly and check out what we are learning!!! 

Have a great week! 

Spiders, spiders, and more spiders

This week we are learning all about spiders. Now, Ms. Race absolutely does not like spiders so we want to learn as much as we can just to see her cringe. Here are a few questions we want answered....

1. How many eggs can they lay at one time?
2. How do jumping spiders jump so high?
3. How many spiders come out of one egg?
4. What do they catch in their webs?
5. What do spiders eat?
6. How do they shoot webs?
7. How do they eat their prey?
8. How big is a tarantula's egg?
9. Why do people not like spiders?
10. Why are they afraid of humans?

11. What are natural predators of spiders?

Please share cool websites, videos, or pictures of spiders with us!

 

Jellyfish

This week we are diving back into the ocean blue to learn all about jellyfish. We know a little bit about them such as, they can sting you, they can kill fish, and their sting can be very dangerous for humans! Although we know these things...we want to know more!

1. How do jellyfish eat?
2. Can jellyfish live on land and water?
3. How many babies do jellyfish have?
4. Do they also scratch you when they sting?
5. What do jellyfish eat?
6. Can a jellyfish see? Do they have eyes?
7. Are jellyfish different colors?

We hope you have some cool pictures, videos, or websites that will help us discover these answers. 

Ms. Race's class 

Sea Turtles

This week we are learning all about sea turtles. We get the chance to dive into the ocean and find out what they are all about. Now, we know a little about sea turtles like...they live on land and water, sea gulls enjoy them sometimes for breakfast, they can lay lots of eggs, and they can eat fish sometimes. Although we know quite a bit, we plan to learn a whole lot more this week. We have a few questions we want to know if you can answer! We would love to see pictures, websites, or even cool videos all about sea turtles so please share with us.

Questions: 

1. How long does a sea turtle live?

2. How much does a sea turtle weigh?

3. Exactly how many eggs can they lay?

4. What does a sea turtle eat?

5. Why does the mother sea turtle leave her eggs?

6. Which oceans does the sea turtle live in?

7. What hunts a sea turtle?

Please share cool websites, pictures, comments, or videos! 

Thanks, Ms. Race's class 

A new class...a new beginning!

This school year has already started and we are ready to rock and roll! After talking with my students here are a few things we hope to learn this school year....

1. Sharks
2. Building things- engineering
3. How to get four jobs in one day
4. Hyenas
5. How do things/objects fly?
6.Jellyfish
7.Building a vertical wall and tearing it down
8. How to build ships
9. Building a transformer
10. Barbies
11. Math
12. Penguins
13. Spiders
14.Sea Turtles
15. All the poisonous spiders
16. Rocket launchers
17. Catching sharks
18. Honey Bees
19.Elephants
20. King Cobras   

EXTRA EXTRA READ all about it!!!

This week we are learning all about sequencing of events. So we decided to take a look at the newspaper and how it was made. Now the interesting part is we are looking at the newspapers from the 1700s. WOW times have changed!!!!!

Then:
*The printer made words by pulling individual letters and forming them into words.
*When they printed a page they had to hang it up to dry before passing it out.
* 240 pages printed per hour
*They had to have a TON of patiences!!!

Now we have noticed that newspapers today have color, pictures, and cartoons. We have requested for a guest to come visit us this week. Hopefully we will be able to share more information once our guest teaches us!