Water Unit Comes to a End!

Students ended the Water Unit in science by constructing water wheels. They came up with many designs and learned how to make them work efficiently.

Evaporation and Surface Area

Students learned that water in containers with large surface areas will evaporate quicker then a container with a small surface area.

What Would it Have Been Like to Sail on the Mayflower?

The students have been reading the non-fiction book, If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. They are amazed by the determination of the Pilgrims. The students are building their vocabulary by making word books with words from the text. They will be finding examples of cause and effect and illustrating them in booklets. As they read this book, the students are very thankful for all they have!

How Can We Help Others This Thanksgiving?

The Westerly Sun asked the students of Charlestown School to write a paragraph about how they could help others this Thanksgiving. Mrs. McGill's class enjoyed writing and thinking about ways that they could help others. Maybe one of their paragraphs will be published in the Westerly Sun!

Where did the Water Go?

Mrs. McGill's class set up an investigation to learn about evaporation. Students examined the balance and were asked what they thought caused the open cup to go up. They quickly came to the conclusion that it weighed less because the paper towel exposed to air dried out. The lesson learned was that wet materials become dry when exposed to air and the drying process is called evaporation. Water changes into a gas called water vapor and goes into the air.

Water Investigations!

Students have been learning about the different properties of water. They have learned that water does different things on different surfaces and that water has surface tension. When they added soap to water they found out that surface tension is reduced.
Students had fun finding out what happens to water on a slope. It goes down the slope, but goes faster down steeper slopes! Also, larger drops of water flow quicker down a slope than smaller drops of water. Students are investigating the many different properties of water.

Welcome Back to School!

The students are excited to be back in school! I am enjoying getting to know my class of twenty children.
Today the children used our classroom white boards to practice the concepts of place value. They practiced showing numbers in expanded form, word form, standard form and with place value blocks. Everyone enjoyed practicing their math skills!