"We Elect to be Drug Free"
This week we have been learning about making good choices for ourselves. We have been talking about "Saying No to Drugs". The slogan this year flowed nicely with the upcoming election on Tuesday. We discussed the meaning of the word "elect". The children were right on target and came up with: select, opt, vote for, make up my mind to do, choose!
We also have been learning about the three branches of government and how government officials are elected. We saw several different "Brain Pop" videos on government and election processes this past week!
We also learned a lot about bats as we read two stories, Stellaluna and The Great Ball Game. We compared bats to birds and learned some interesting facts about bats.
Bats are the only flying mammals.
Certain bats eat fish, insects, flowers, and fruit.
The largest bat is called the "flying fox". It can have a wingspan of 6 feet.
Bats like to sleep upside down.
Bats use echolocation to see their way through the dark night sky.
Stay tuned for more info!!!!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Weather Hat Projects Revealed:
Be sure to check out the pictures of the "Weather Hats" that our children created! They were awesome. We got to parade through the halls of DFES and let Kindergarten and First grade see what we had done!
The children loved sharing their project with the whole class. Several Weather Hats are on disply in the case by the cafeteria. All other hats are on display in the library. If you get a chance you can stop by and see all of second grades!
Click on the link to see the pictures of Perkins' Pups!
http://www.lex5.k12.sc.us/webpages/eperkins/meteorologist.cfm?subpage=34363
Bon Jour!
We had a real treat on Wednesday! We were able to call and talk to John in France! It was 12:30pm our time and 6:30 pm his time. John has a phone number through Vonage so we were able to call for free! It was so good to hear his voice! The children loved connecting with him also! He was able to tell us a little bit about school. Each child got to say hello to him. Even the new children in our class were able to introduce themselves to him! He is missed a lot by the Pups!!!
John has every Wednesday off from school. We hope to try and call him every other week!
Stay tuned for more exciting news from the class!
Be sure to check out the pictures of the "Weather Hats" that our children created! They were awesome. We got to parade through the halls of DFES and let Kindergarten and First grade see what we had done!
The children loved sharing their project with the whole class. Several Weather Hats are on disply in the case by the cafeteria. All other hats are on display in the library. If you get a chance you can stop by and see all of second grades!
Click on the link to see the pictures of Perkins' Pups!
http://www.lex5.k12.sc.us/webpages/eperkins/meteorologist.cfm?subpage=34363
Bon Jour!
We had a real treat on Wednesday! We were able to call and talk to John in France! It was 12:30pm our time and 6:30 pm his time. John has a phone number through Vonage so we were able to call for free! It was so good to hear his voice! The children loved connecting with him also! He was able to tell us a little bit about school. Each child got to say hello to him. Even the new children in our class were able to introduce themselves to him! He is missed a lot by the Pups!!!
John has every Wednesday off from school. We hope to try and call him every other week!
Stay tuned for more exciting news from the class!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Today we had the fun experience of hearing from a member of the NOAA. Mr. Steve is a weatherman for the National Weather association here in Columbia. NOAA is located by the Columbia Airport.
Mr. Steve showed us some neat photos of floods, tornados, hurricanes, thunderstorms and lightning.
In a flood, if you are driving remember to "Stop.. turn around... don't Drown!" Never try to drive your car through a flooded street or road.
Make sure you get to higher ground than the water level.
In a tornado, get to the lowest level in your house. If you don't have a basement, then hide in a hallway or interior room without windows.
NOAA sends up weather ballooons twice a day. The device takes readings on wind speeds and directions, the height of clouds, and the humidity in the air.
The satellite above the earth tracks storms in the sea. Hurricanes can be spotted, photographed, and measured from space.
Tornados may gather together to form a huge tornado. Tornados can be very destructible. They can uproot tress, tear down homes and throw heavy cars a mile away.
Lightning can strike you even if the storm is 10 miles away. You know you are in a strike zone when the hair on your head and body stand up!
Watch out for other cars when the weather is foggy. Turn on your lights and drive slow. Fog is low lying clouds close to the ground.
Special airplanes can fly into Hurricanes to get information and readings on the storm.
The eye of the hurricane is the calmest place to be in the storm.
We discussed the water cycle. The water evaporates into the air. It makes water vapor that is hard to see. If the water vapor is turned fast enough then a tornado can be formed. If not, then the water can turn to rain, fall to the earth, run off into the lakes, rivers or oceans. Then the process begins again.
Sleet is hard forms of ice that fall from the sky. If you find a ball of sleet. Cut it open. You can count the rings to see how many times the ball rose and fell in the cloud before it hit the ground.
Be sure to check out our daily podcasts for the weather in our area!
Mr. Steve showed us some neat photos of floods, tornados, hurricanes, thunderstorms and lightning.
In a flood, if you are driving remember to "Stop.. turn around... don't Drown!" Never try to drive your car through a flooded street or road.
Make sure you get to higher ground than the water level.
In a tornado, get to the lowest level in your house. If you don't have a basement, then hide in a hallway or interior room without windows.
NOAA sends up weather ballooons twice a day. The device takes readings on wind speeds and directions, the height of clouds, and the humidity in the air.
The satellite above the earth tracks storms in the sea. Hurricanes can be spotted, photographed, and measured from space.
Tornados may gather together to form a huge tornado. Tornados can be very destructible. They can uproot tress, tear down homes and throw heavy cars a mile away.
Lightning can strike you even if the storm is 10 miles away. You know you are in a strike zone when the hair on your head and body stand up!
Watch out for other cars when the weather is foggy. Turn on your lights and drive slow. Fog is low lying clouds close to the ground.
Special airplanes can fly into Hurricanes to get information and readings on the storm.
The eye of the hurricane is the calmest place to be in the storm.
We discussed the water cycle. The water evaporates into the air. It makes water vapor that is hard to see. If the water vapor is turned fast enough then a tornado can be formed. If not, then the water can turn to rain, fall to the earth, run off into the lakes, rivers or oceans. Then the process begins again.
Sleet is hard forms of ice that fall from the sky. If you find a ball of sleet. Cut it open. You can count the rings to see how many times the ball rose and fell in the cloud before it hit the ground.
Be sure to check out our daily podcasts for the weather in our area!
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