We had three guest speakers this afternoon during science. Scott, Patrick, and Wesley are engineering students at ICC. They talked to the kids about what engineers do and how they work together to solve problems and create new things.
Our science topic this week is sound. We've been learning about how sound is made and how it moves. We've also talked about pitch and volume. Our guests started out the afternoon with a fun game of "Telephone" as a way to show how sound moves (in this case, from person to person).
The students then created a tambourine made out of paper plates and bells.
The final activity was making plastic cup telephones. There was a variety of strings to choose from. The students got to test out which strings worked better. It was fun to see the students' eyes light up the first time they heard their partner's voice over their phone line. I can only imagine that Alexander Graham Bell felt the same excitement. The students also experimented with criss-crossing two or three sets of phones to see if they could still hear each other.
Spelling Words - Journey, week 1
1. journey
2. meadow
3. camera
4. travel
5. lilacs
6. album
7. photograph
8. garden
9. glasses
10. mother
11. grandmother
12. father
13. grandfather
14. sister
15. brother
