Day 180 - Bubble Man - Sarah Visocchi - Pine Glen Grade 4

Have you worked with bubbles today?  If you have washed your hands, brushed your teeth, and had breakfast (digestion), then you have worked with lots of bubbles according to the Bubble Man!  On Tuesday, we experienced an amazing show all about bubbles.  We learned some of the science behind bubbles, as well as received information about how to build our own bubble makers.  So get some bubble liquid and start making bubbles!

Can you make a snowman with bubbles?

Do you know how to blow a bubble around a dinosaur?  It's a whole new Jurassic World! Try it at home!

Ellie in a bubble!

Ellie even got to try!

Thank you so much to our Pine Glen PTO for enriching our students and teachers with such a fun program!

Day 163 - Owl Pellet Dissection - Mrs. Lynch - Pine Glen Grade 3

Keira finds something Sharp
Look no Gloves!
Go Girl!

Building a Skeleton

Complete vertebral column,
How cool!

I think this is a Vole

Cora showing Mr. Lyons
her mandible bone from a
rodent

Chloe with expert precision

Alex and  Dylan digging on in

Caleb and friends looking closely

Kate, Ryan and Pedro
looking at bones

Students had a special treat  when they came back from the Reservoir field trip. Each class had two Owl Pellets to dissect. Using a Dichotomous Key, they dissected  the pellets with toothpicks and forks.Carefully they pried away the fur to find bones from the owl's prey. 

They used deductive reasoning to figure out what type of mammal the Owl had consumed.  This was simply Amazing to watch!! One of my Favorites.

Mrs. Doherty and Mrs. Cunha's classes rotated in to my room for this scientific experience. Many students were leary of touching the pellet thinking that it was poop. I explained to them that it wasn't and eventually with the help of some surgical gloves all students enjoyed this hands on activity.

Day 162 - Plants and Procedural Writing - Miss Smith - Pine Glen Grade 1

This post first appeared on Miss Smith's Blog

First Graders were hard at work this week! In science we learned all about plants and their parts! We also got to do some planting. After we planted, we learned a new type of writing-- procedural. We learned the features of a procedural text and then wrote a procedural piece as a class and published it as a video. We had a blast recording our segments!  

Check out our “How to Grow a Sunflower” video!

Day 158 - Lights, Camera, Action! - Mrs. Fitzpatrick - Pine Glen Grade 5

This post originally appeared on Mrs. Fitzpatrick's Blog

In ELA, students have been working very hard creating their public service announcements! For this project teams selected and researched a topic, designed a storyboard and wrote a script. Finally it was time to shoot the video using iMovie and our green screen!  The videos turned out awesome!

Check Out the Videos Below!

Day 156 - The Importance of Reading Aloud to Children - Ms. Varrell - Pine Glen Grade 2

This post originally appeared on Ms. Varrell's Blog

Some thoughts from Dr. Anne Cunningham of the University of California, Berkeley...

Day 99 - Designing Water Wheels - Jane Lynch - Pine Glen Third Grade

Mrs. Ardizzoni teaching us how to

 make a table for the data

Designing a sucessful wheel

Drawing pad helps us record the data

Lyle  at the starting point

Ryan rights his wheel

Cora letting it flow

Kaitlyn awaits the water

Here goes Henry

Alexis and her ferris wheel design

Keep it steady Kate

Alli's turn

Get Ready Erin!

Kalash having a go

Aditya's first attempt

Day 90 - Light It Up - Mrs. Lynch - Pine Glen Third Grade

Kaitlyn and Erin completing the Circuit!!

Checking out the materials

Alli and Alexis using the double battery circuit.

Testing classroom supplies

Ryan and Skyla using the switch

Rubber acts like an insulator

Testing conductors

Aditya and Kate lighting it up!!

Cora and Henry had success too!

Students receive their materials and using their knowledge  of electricity, conductors, and insulators they need to assemble a circuit that lights up a bulb using batteries and switches. Many  of them had success.

Great experiment to wrap up our electricity unit. Well done 205!