Connections are Made! Learning is Happening!

Mrs. Betts was so excited today with all the connections we made.  We started our science today with a review of what we had learned about matter.  Mrs. Betts was very impressed with all our knowledge.  Then we focused on one particular part of matter which was water.  We brainstormed everything we knew about water.  Here is some of our thinking.

Notice the last 4 ideas and how they connect to our matter unit!

 Mrs. Betts then gave us a challenge to use the iPads and find out anything we could about the water cycle!  What fun we had!  We found Youtube sights that had songs about the water cycle.  We found diagrams that explained how the water cycle works and we had lots of conversations about some of the words that we read and what they meant!   Mrs. Betts so impressed with what we found and how we were able to connect our new learning with what we had learned about matter. 

Graham and Damian found a song that told all about the water cycle - we can't wait to learn it tomorrow!

One group of students found this site and had a very good discussion about it with Mrs. Betts!

We were so involved with our learning the bell went and we didn't even realize what time it was.  We didn't have time to share what we  learned with each other so we will start our day tomorrow sharing. I can't wait to hear everyone's thoughts and see what they found out!   Should be a fun way to start the day!