Earth
In the life cycle of a sunflower, this is the first stage or the very beginning.
What is a seed?
The everyday, puffy, cotton ball looking clouds in the sky are called this
What is cumulus?
When firefighters respond to an emergency call, they have to get dressed in their fire protectant clothing, including this item that protects their head in case of falling items.
What is a helmet?
This natural disaster is when a huge wave forms in the ocean. If it reaches land it is a natural disaster that can wash away miles and miles of cities.
What is a tsunami?
Summer school started in June and ends in July, but we only attend for this many weeks.
What is 4?
Using an unusual method of measuring, we learned that it takes 47 of these to get from our classroom door to the library at McKinley elementary school.
What are 2nd graders?
Clouds are formed during this step of the water cycle.
What is condensation?
There are different kinds of fire trucks. One kind is a ladder truck which allows the fire department to climb to high places. This kind of fire truck carries 1000 gallons of water.
When it is very hot outside we have to remain hydrated by drinking water because we lose water naturally through this process that can sometimes leave our armpits looking wet.
What is sweat?
We had a read aloud almost everyday of summer school. These books were all about disasters of all kinds written by Lauren Tarshis and captured in this series.
What is I Survived?
Our visit from Food and Farm Exploration Center taught us about crops grown in Wisconsin. This well known fruit that flavored our smoothies is known well in the Door County area.
What are cherries?
What is rain?
Science is fun! When you combine baking soda, vinegar, food coloring, and dish soap into a bottle, it makes a mess that represents this kind of natural phenomenon.
What is a volcano eruption?
I like to put on my rainboots after a rain storm and go outside to splash around in these leftover areas of water.
What are puddles?
As second graders, Miss A in the library got to see us every week and we got to check out this many books if we wanted to.
What is 2?
A butterfly life cycle has four stages, it starts as an egg and ends as a butterfly, but you can't get from the beginning to the end without these two stages.
What are the caterpillar and chrysalis?
At Miss Sydney's craft table during centers, we made these clouds that were full of positive traits about ourselves.
What are kindness clouds?
A fire needs these three elements in order to ignite and continue to burn.
What are fuel, heat, and oxygen?
The Earth is about 71% water. The largest bodies of water are called this.
What are oceans?
Field Trips are so much fun! During week 3, we got to walk to this special spot and have a sweet treat to eat.
What is Belt's?
The staff at Village Gardens taught us a lot about different plants and what a greenhouse does. Every student got to repot a plant and take home this type of flower.
What is a marigold?
Cumulonimbus clouds are those that form when there are big storms in the area. It is this part of the cloud that indicates to us which direction the storm is traveling.
Fire burns until an element is removed from the fire triangle. When you put a glass over a candle, this element is take away and causes the fire to go out.
What is oxygen?
I'm having a birthday party and it is really hot outside. I want to play water games. My mom told me I can fill up these items so that we can throw them at each other.
What are water balloons?
During the first week of school we planted four different kinds of seeds: jalapenos, basil, pumpkins, and these climbing plants.
What are peas?