Science Fun!

    Oh my goodness!  I can't believe I haven't put up a blog in a month.  We have been having so much fun.  I will have to go back and add some pictures of October activities.  Today was too much fun not to blog about.  We practiced creating the moon phases.  This is an important cycle that we must understand as fourth graders.  Of course we had to make it fun, so we used Oreo cookies for our moon phases.  Thanks to the parents who sent in cookies.  It was a great activity and tasty!
    Next we tried out virtual reality with Merge Cubes.  We were able to hold the entire solar system in our hands and watch as the planets orbited the sun.  We could even see the moons for every planet.  Touching the planets gave us information pop up boxes.  We really learned a lot.  The kids were super excited about this activity.  I appreciate the parents who sent a device with the app downloaded on it.  Our Ipads are changing here at school and all of the apps are gone right now.  I don't know what I would do without such devoted parents.  You guys are the best.