More October learning!

We started off our study of explorers by learning about Columbus and his theory that the world was round.

We learned about the king and queen of Spain. We looked at some of the treasures Mrs. Goshert brought back from her trip to Spain last year. 

We smelled spices like the ones Columbus was looking for in Asia.

We made hats and spyglasses and went exploring on the playground. 

We found treasure!

We enjoyed this picture of Mrs. Goshert's son standing on the spot they used to think was the edge of the world!

We made our own earths. We painted them then labeled them with other things that are spheres like the earth. They're finshed and hanging in our room!

 


We got to go harvest radishes in the garden!
First we stopped to take a look at how our spinach and lettuce is growing.

 Then we climbed up into the 3rd grade gardens and picked a radish.

This week we also floated our boats! First we predicted whether they would sink or float. Then we went outside and sailed them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
If we did not have a boat we got to choose one of our fall items to see what it would do.

 



We headed out to set sail -
they LOVED to see their boats float!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All of our ships floated!

The next thing we did was to predict how many cups of water were in our tub. We wrote down the predictions, then emptied the tub cup by cup onto our straw bale. Every time we emptied a cup we made a tally mark.
We didn't get too wet and we worked hard!

After we were done we counted the tally marks. We made a ten circle for every ten marks. When we were done we had 16 groups of ten, or 160 tally marks, with 7 leftover ones. That meant there were 167 cups of water in our tub. The students who predicted 100 were closest.

Whew, that was a lot of work!