Water Cycle

Today we learned about the "Bossy R," that tells vowels to make an angry sound. Bossy R is polite, though, because he lets the vowel go first. When one group was at guided reading with me, they were generating r-controlled words and decided to add "fart" to the list. Oh, my! We created interactive notebooks during writing today. The notebooks will become a place to collect all the spelling rules we learn this year. We are doing something similar for science and social studies, as well. In our science notebooks, we wrote a definition for evaporation. Tomorrow we'll add condensation. We made mini water cycles-in-action. We drew the sun, a cloud, and waves onto the outside of a sandwich baggie, added a little water and blue food coloring, and taped the bags to the window. We will watch what happens as the sun hits the window in the mornings. As the water evaporates and condensation accumulates, we can tap on the bag to watch the droplets combine to make bigger drops that will get heavy enough to "rain." Cool, huh? The students are super excited!