An Apple a Day...

We have been busy learning all about apples in science. We learned all about the Apple Life Cycle and how they grow on trees. And we explored them inside and out...

Then recorded our results in our science journals.

And finally, we had an Apple Tasting Party!

We tasted 6 different varities of apples and loved them all!

But as our pictograph shows, good old-fashioned Red Delicious was our favorite!

Pumpkin Science

Who says science has to be boring? We sure had a lot of fun exploring pumpkins inside and out!

We explored the outsides of pumpkins and recorded our findings in our science journals...

And the we explored the insides...

Squishy...

Mushy...

Gooey...

FUN!

We counted the seeds...

There were a lot!

And then we made Jack-O-Lanterns!

Thank-you so much to all of the parents who came and helped with the ooey-gooey chaos!

Meet our Interns...

We have been very lucky this semester to have 2 inters from the University of Texas...Ms. Luong and Ms. Zhang! We have really enjoyed learning lots of new things from them.
This week, Ms. Luong and Ms. Zhang did science with us. Ms. Luong helped us do an experiment on floating and sinking. We made predictions on which items would sink and which would float and then tested our predictions...

The next day, Ms. Zhang challenged us to see if we could make a piece of modeling clay float...
We tried a lot of things....

Nope...sank...

Try again...

Nope...sank again...

For the record...blowing air into the clay doesn't work...
We finally figured out how to flatten the clay out and curve up the sides so water can't get in (like a boat), and although we don't have any pictures, we really did get some to float! Really, we did!

A Peek at our Community Helpers Mural...

For those of you who haven't had a chance to see it in person...

After our community helpers unit, we brainstormed a list of important community places and helpers and made a giant mural to show what we learned.

Here are a few details...we included a hospital, vet, school, HEB, park, offices...

...restaurants, an animal shelter (we had just had a visit from the Williamson County Animal Shelter), a movie theater and doctor's office...

...a post office, school and police station...

...a fire station (and a burning building so the firefighters would have something to do!)

Reading Under the Stars

Here are a few pictures from the Literacy Night Camp Out on October 21st (Yes--the same day as our field trip!) Young and old gathered under the stars to listen to camp stories and eat smores...

Here's Mr. Pratz reading in front of his trailer...
And Ms. Spitzer in her tent...

And a few of our friends enjoying the fun...

Old Ms. Warner had a Farm...

And she is exhausted! But we all had a great time!

Enjoy!

Poem of the Week

Way up high in an apple tree,

I saw two eyes look at me.

I reached for an apple.

It started to squirm…

Oops!

I found a wiggly worm!