Protect the Popsicle- Engineering Challenge

This morning Mr. Musselman from the Burlington Science Center came to assist the kindergartners in collaborating to build their groups shade structure. The kindergarten groups spent about an hour constructing their structures. We finished with the construction in an hour and then we went back to our classroom and talked about how the structures were made. Our next step was to test our structures. It took about 12 minutes for the control freezepop to completely melt. We then took the freezepops out of the structures and measured how much of the freezepop melted. The students had an extra recess while we all waited for the control pop to melt. Then when we were going over the results the students were able to eat their own freezepop.

Planning our structures from  our shade structure sketches.

Starting the construction of the shade structures.

The completed shade structures.

Setting up the experiment!

Extra recess while the control freezepop melts!

Enjoying a freezepop while we go over the results of the experiment.

 Here are our results. Matthew, Dominic and Connor's structure protected the freezepop the BEST!

Great job Room 101!

Pine Glen Walkathon

We walked a mile around the back of Pine Glen this morning to help raise funds for the Pine Glen PTO. After we completed our walk we were given horn blowers and we cheered on the grades 2-5 as they walked. We then posed for a picture with the whole school! Hopefully we will get a copy of that picture so I can post it! It was hot outside but all the kindergartners did an AWESOME job! We were so proud of our students. The PTO will be accepting sponsor money for the walkathon until June 1st. You can fill out the sponsor form or make a donation online. The PTO is very generous with Kindergarten, so please be sure to support them!

Parents as Readers

This morning we started our day by welcoming back our Parents as Readers for the last time this year. Thank you to Mrs. Maguire, Mrs. Hache, Mrs. Mailhot, Mrs. Faranda and Mrs. Dyment for reading with us today. We appreciate you taking the time to come in and READ to us. Listening to stories is an awesome way to start our day!

Weather

We have been working on our weather unit all year. Tracking the temperature, types of weather, the different seasons and what we could do if we had an outdoor party in each season. This week we revisited weather and the students explored the Marco Polo weather app on the iPads, they dressed paper dolls according to what type of weather and temperature they chose. We also did an ice in the sun and ice in the shade experiment. We read about different types of weather and how to make juice pops. We also looked at many different shade structures and planned how we should create our own shade structure to protect the freeze pop. This engineering challenge will take place on Tuesday. Mr. Musselman will come to PG along with many parent volunteers to help the students collaboratively create a shade structure to protect their groups freeze pop. If the weather cooperates we hope to test the structures on Wednesday!  This project will be a culminating event for our year end weather unit!