Temperature changes matter

Today we melted chocolate chips in different temperatures of water.  We realized that the change in matter occurred faster if the temperature was warmer.  

Have you ever heard of the Global Cardboard Challenge? It truly is a PERFECT connection for our school and scholars!! This global effort challenges students all over the world to get involved in making cardboard creations, using only cardboard and other recyclable materials.

The Global Cardboard Challenge launched from the overwhelming global response to the short film, “Caine’s Arcade,” through the Imagination Foundation, in order to "foster and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in children around the world to raise a new generation of innovators and problem solvers who have the tools they need to build the world they imagine." Click here to read more about this challenge! All Cannon scholars are invited to participate in, Cannon's Cardboard Creations Challenge. All that choose to participate will make their cardboard creations at home. On Friday, October 10th, all Cardboard creations will be brought to school and all grade levels will participate in a school-wide Cardboard Creations Gallery Walk, in order to view all of the creative cardboard creations! All scholars that participate will earn a digital badge, in recognition of their innovative thinking and creative use of recyclable materials! We are also planning to keep the cardboard creations to make an awesome display for our Family Engineering Night, scheduled for November.  We can't wait to see what the 2nd graders create.  

Weather Tools Skype

Today we got to skype with Jeff Jamison to learn about all the tools a meteorologist uses to predict the weather. 

Muddy Mats Engineering Challenge

Today we are testing layers for or mats. We are testing what materials don't let water through because we don't want our mats to leak.

Tens and Ones

Working on making groups of tens and ones.  Once they have their groups they are recording the number in standard form, expanded form, and showing it in tens and ones blocks.  

Spelling city (Step & Ganus home rooms)

Spelling City app is ready for the children to start using to help them with their spelling words.  When the children open their app they will click on the button at the bottom that says "more lists" and then they will type in "Step" as the teacher, which will then pull up our weekly spelling lists.  From that menu they will be able to select to play some of the games using their words or they can practice taking a spelling test.  Please let me know if you have any questions or problems with it!

Today in math Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Ganus  started a Place Value project with Mrs. Berumen.  Look at the following website to see the project.  http://can-ganus.wikispaces.com/Place+Value+Under+100.