Capacity

Today in math we explored Capacity.  The kids had a lot of fun with this lesson and wanted to do more with it at home.  Here is a short video with some simple ideas of things you can try at home to work with capacity.  I recommend using food coloring to make the water easier to view when moving from a smaller container into a larger one.  Enjoy!!
-Mr. Linnet

Want to give your child a gift that will be fun all Spring and Summer long???

Check out the Sacramento RiverCats Kids Club.  For $10 your child will get a cool t-shirt, and tickets to every Sunday home game for the 2019 season.  It is an unbelievable deal that I have personally done for my son since he was three years old.  They get to sit out in the grass, interact with players, play in the Kid's Zone, get some autographs, run the bases after the game, and oh yeah...watch a minor league baseball game (they are the Giants AAA team, so sometimes you get to see big names playing down in a rehab assignment).  I don't normally solicit for companies, but I believe this is a great gift to put in your child's stocking if they like baseball, or if your family just likes getting out on the weekends and having a good time together.  Check out the link for more information, or stop by and ask me, I would be happy to share our family's experiences (like Skylar getting to go on the field and sit in the dugout, or say "Let's Play Ball!" on the PA system to start a game).  The last few years we have even given Kids Club memberships to Skylar's friends for Christmas so they could go to the games together. 

Sacramento RiverCats Kids Club Link

KIDS REACT TO WALKMANS (Portable Cassette Players)

Today we began our unit on Science and Technology.  Our primary focus is on technology at home and school, and comparing how things were 100 years ago, to how they are now.  Over the past 100 years, technology has changed just about every aspect of our everyday lives.  A fun way of introducing this concept was to show this video of children reacting to old technology...the walkman!

Check it out for yourself, and if you have any old tech that you would like to bring in and share with the class, please message me so we can set up a time to do our own "Kids React" lesson in the class.  Last year we got to explore an old "Box" TV, a Commodore 64 computer, a record player, a GameBoy, a VCR, and an old camcorder from the 1980's.  The students had a lot of fun with it, and it was very interesting to hear them hypothesize how this old technology might have been used.

This is a fun unit, and I hope that you can share a nostalgic walk down memory lane with the technology that you held onto in the attic, garage, or closet.  -Mr. Linnet