I'm only a few months late with these pictures... enjoy!
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Be sure to ask your student about some of the chemical tests we've been doing at school. We have 5 unknown "chemicals" (all safe, I promise!) and we are testing them with water, vinegar, iodine, heat, and red cabbage juice and observing reactions. Your student should be able to explain what reactions they have observed! We will put it all together soon and look at our evidence and figure out which chemical is which! We were so lucky to have Evey's grandmother and grandfather come in and do a literature art lesson with us. We started by reading the book Roxaboxen which is a super cute book about having a space in a community. Then, we used various supplies to make our own little spot in our Roxaboxen community. We had some crazy creative art projects! Check out the cute pictures! Last week, we took an awesome trip to the ESSL. We look at a lot of different components of our science curriculum; in particular, we focused a lot on living organisms and fossils. Check out some of our awesome pictures from our trip! On Wednesday, we played a super fun game that taught us a ton about economics. Most recently, we've been learning about budgeting, income, scarcity, resources, goods and services, producers and consumers, and opportunity cost. This is a really tough unit but we are doing great with it so far! We read a lot about supply and demand and how a low supply makes prices increase, and having a high supply makes prices decrease and vice versa with demand. We put this into action when we broke into two separate groups: buyers and sellers. The buyers had to try and buy the most apples from our sellers and our sellers had to try and make the most money from selling their apples. The sellers made their own prices and deals to try and lure their consumers in. They set initial prices and then after a few minutes were allowed to change to their prices once they saw what their market was like. Some set some crazy prices at first, and then realized what they had to do to sell. |
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