Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Marcelo vs. Mr. Michaels

What We Learned About Balance

Here's What We Learned About Balance
  1. We added clothespins as counter weight to make things balance.
  2. Counter weight is when you add weight to balance things.
  3. We put counter weight on the bottom of things to make it balance and not fall over. 
  4. If the weight is on top, something will fall over. 
 

Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Challengers


It was a tough challenge to beat Mr. Michaels and both boys played hard!

Addition Top-It Championship

The Addition Top-It Championship

On Friday, Marcelo and Alize played Addition Top-It against Mr. Michaels.
We all cheered for our two classmates!


Our librarian, Mrs. Zerbe, even came to cheer!


Our Fourth Mystery Reader

On Friday, we had our fourth Mystery Reader.  This week's clues were tough ones yet again.

Here were this week's clues:
1.  I have blue eyes.
2.  I love Hershey kisses.
3.  I like to drink Pepsi like daddy.
4.  I love to drink coffee.
5.  I have four kids.

We had a few guesses and one of us was right.  This week's Mystery Reader was:


Mrs. White, Elizabeth's mom!  Thank you Mrs. White!!

Monday, October 18, 2010

Science Experiment #1 - Balance

Our first science experiment about balance.