Mayflower Postcards

It's hard to believe that it is already time for Thanksgiving break! For the coming holiday we studied the Mayflower. We read a magazine about the experience that children had on the Mayflower. We learned vocabulary words like "miserable" and "seasick." After, we created our own post cards being sent from the Mayflower. We each created a picture in Pixie (a computer drawing program) and then wrote a message on the back about what it was like to be on the Mayflower. We delivered our post cards to friends and teachers around the school, or brought them home to deliver to family.

Sink or Float

This week in science we tried to figure out why things float. First we made some predictions- we thought that things might float because they're flat, round, heavier than the water, light, have air inside, or because "they don't have a lot of stuff inside them." To test our theories we used a variety of fruit. To our surprise many of the the fruits floated except the grape and the mango. Afterwards we went back and reflected on our original ideas. We talked about some of the reasons that things float like shape, weight, and density. 

In the picture below students are holding up sink or float cards to predict what a piece of fruit will do.