Muddy Mats Engineering

Today in our Muddy Mats Engineering project we tested our materials for leaking.

Muddy Mats Properties of Matter

Our  second grade engineers received a challenge today from Mrs. Blizzard she needs for us to engineer mats for our building. She is concerned that with our garden we may bring too much water into the building.  She needs mats that soak up water, don't leak and won't slip on our floors.  To accomplish this task we started today by looking at the properties of water with a penny and water drop experiment.  

Rock Properties

Today we went on a rock hunt.  They each picked a rock and then wrote all of the properties for their rock.  They each shared their writings and then others tried to guess their rock from the properties.  

We will be conducting our annual Walk to School event on Wednesday, October 7th. We would love to have our entire school participate in the Walk to School event. Please drop off your child at Grapevine Methodist Church Parking lot or Dogwood Dr (Across from Baylor) between 7:00-7:15 am. Staff will be waiting to walk with students. Parents are more than welcome to walk with us too. International Walk to School Day is a global event that involves communities from more than 40 countries walking and biking to school on the same day. It began in 1997 as a one-day event. Over time, this event has become part of a movement for year-round safe routes to school and a celebration – with record-breaking participation – each October. Today, thousands of schools across America – from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico – participate every October.

No Choir Tomorrow 
Mr. Lollis is not feeling well. 
Please make arrangements for pick up at 2:45.
Thanks

Book of the Month

Each month we will have a STEM Book of the Month.  September's book is Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt.   Please click on the following link to read all about this month's design challenge!
https://www.smore.com/cqd6p

September Book of the Month Design Challenge

Design a model of a plant that grows up in the garden OR create a model of an animal or insect that lives down in the dirt. Your above ground model should showcase a root system, stem, leaf and flower(s). If you choose to create an underground model it should showcase the insect or animal body parts along with its unique adaptations. Both models should be designed to stand upright by itself and be no larger than 12 inches x 8 inches in size.

STEM Magazine

Here is the latest copy of the monthly STEM magazine.  Enjoy reading!

http://cloud.flipb.com/stem-magazine/g2915/index.html

Good Citizenship Statues

Today we finished our engineering our statues of good citizenship.  Check out some of these pictures.

Engineering Statues

This week our engineering challenge is to engineer live statues that represent good citizens.  They are planning and building. We can't wait to see and share their statues.

Real School Gardens

Real School Gardens

We are still in need of garden tools and volunteers for our upcoming "Big Dig Day".  See below for more information!

Place Value

Today we went to the library to kick off our place value unit.  Mrs. Beruman needed our help counting books. We had some problems with counting all those books. We are going to brainstorm solutions on Monday and come back to help.

Free program

Here is a free program through the Grapevine Public Library that you might be interested in checking out!

 

‘Dads and Kids’ Pizza Night!

FREE Pizza, Drinks and Fun!

Fathers and Father-figures,

On Monday, September 21st from 6:30-7:30pm we will be having our 4th annual ‘Dads and Kids’ Pizza Night at our school.  You will meet here at the school cafeteria at 6:30pm for FREE pizza and drinks.  At 7:00 we will have a presentation about our WATCH D.O.G.S.^® (Dads Of Great Students) Program.  WATCH D.O.G.S.^® is an innovative program being used by schools across America which helps them to be positively impacted by the committed involvement of fathers and father-figures in their student’s life.  Our goal is to have you spend at least one day this year at the school to be a positive male role model and to provide an extra set of eyes and ears.

Dads, granddads, uncles, step-dads and adult brothers . . . this is your chance to have a night out alone with your student in a fun atmosphere at school.

In order to participate, you need to do two things:

1. Fill out the bottom portion of this  slip and return it with your student (ASAP) saying that you will attend the pizza night so we’ll have an accurate head count for the food.

2.  Mark your calendars,  and  we’ll  see  you  Monday, September 21st  from

6:30-7:30pm.  Official WATCH D.O.G.S.^® Uniform T-shirts for WatchDOGS will be available for ($15) each.

                                                                                 Sincerely,

                                                                                 Mandy Coburn

Cannon Elementary:

A GCISD STEM School

Counselor

(817)251-5684

amanda.coburn@gcisd.net

 

Good Citizenship Awards

The awards have been created and the winners have been announced!!! Here are the winners from Mrs. Ganus and Mrs. Step's classes!

Volunteers

Just a reminder:
If you plan on volunteering this school year (going on field trips or volunteering at school), please make sure to visit the GCISD website and fill out the Volunteer Background Check.  You can find it under the tab "For Parents and Students".   Thank you!

Mrs. Highfill needs the following supplies in ART for a garden project she has planned.

Garden Art Project

• Clean Empty Water Bottles
• Keys and Washers
• Sharpies
• Mod Podge
• 12 inch Long Sticks from a Tree
• Fishing Line

This week second grade is learning what it means to be a good citizen.  In engineering they were given the challenge of building an award.  The awards are all different examples of good citizenship.  They will be watching their classmates and select the most deserving scholar for the award.  We can't wait to see the awards they engineer and the scholars they see as the most deserving of their awards.  We will showcase the winners and their awards later this week.  

This Friday is College Colors Day!  Please wear a college shirt or a college color shirt.