Saturday, January 19, 2013

Elephants and More!

Paisley holds her elephant puppet as the girls eat like elephants. 
Did you know that elephants are herbivores?  They eat all kinds of plants!

Elephants and boys eat carrots, celery, spinach leaves, grains, apples, and peanuts!



Logan and Richard covered my work area with sea animals
including the computer, printer, phone, and desk! 
The culprits did let me take their photo after we all had a good laugh!

Monday, January 14, 2013

Are You Taller Than an Elephant's Tusk?

Mykaia

Danny

Loghan

Jordan

Gideon

Richard

Reese

Tanner

Ryan

Cabella

Paisley

Baylee

Hannah

We all measured ourselves compared to an elephant's tusk. 
WE ARE ALL SMALLER THAN AN AVERAGE FEMALE ELEPHANT TUSK.
Did you know that an elephant's tusk is actually a tooth?  It grows throughout an elephant's life!  An elephant's molars are about the same size as a large tissue box and can be replaced six times! 

Gingerbread Science Experiment

What would happen if the Gingerbread Man swam across the river by himself?

he would die
he would float down the river
pop into tiny pieces
fall apart
fall down the river
crumble before he got to the other side
float up when he fell off the fox's tail
swim across
he would build a log boat to get across
sink
float down the river and go onto a rock
go down a waterfall and drown
go down a waterfall and into a gingerbread house
    We put a gingerbread man cookie in water to see what really would happen.
    Loghan and Danny check their results.
    First the cookie floated on top of the water. 
    We noticed that the sprinkles turned the water pinkish red.

    Reese is watching his cookie.

    See Ryan's cookie floating on top!

    Tanner recorded what he saw after 10 minutes. 
    Tanner was very careful with his cookie and it
    remained floating on top and unbroken for 2 days.

    Gideon's cookie begins to break apart.

    Cabella writes what she observes after 1 hour.

    Parts of the cookie suspended in the water.