One Small Square

Today was another fabulous day in school! We got to do a lot of learning and have a lot of fun today! In social studies we talked about the Land Bridge Theory, in reading we got to read about glyphs and make our own glyph key chains to communicate with each other, and in math we started practicing multiplication strategies. Things got a little messy in science, though! In pairs, students got to dig up "one small square" of soil to observe. Students were able to observe rocks, grass, clay, soil, and even worms! Today's activity was just a warm up for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will be learning about qualitative and quantitative observations. We will then observe our soil again and compare those observations to today's to see how our observations have improved and become more detailed. The kids definitely learned today that science may not always be clean, but it sure is fun! Below are some photos of the kids in action. Enjoy!!