Today, we had Jump Rope for Heart. This morning, we jumped rope for one hour. Jumping rope is a good exercise to do to get your heart pumping and to strengthen it. We did this to raise awareness of heart disease. The fun part was that some of us had our name drawn and we got to win a prize.
This afternoon we made animals made out of hearts. We read My Heart is Like a Zoo by Michael Hall. The author was very creative in using hearts. We started learning about similes. Similes are comparisons using the words like or as. We felt the project was hard and fun. It was hard depending on what animal you picked to make.
We also have been learning about balance and motion from all of the second grade teachers. We learned about how counterweights must be below the balance point to be stable by doing the pencil trick experiment. We used zoomers ot learn about how we need a force to start something moving. For example, you need a push or a pull to make something move. We made another mobile to learn more about balance, weight, balance points and counterweights. We used tops to learn about balance and making things stable. We even got to make our own tops with special designs.
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