Mill City Field Trip

Today we had a great field trip to Mill City Museum!  We learned a lot and had some excellent experiences.

Here are a few highlights:

     - Water equals power and electricity

     - The Washburn A. Mill was the largest in the world.  It is very old.

     - The Mississippi River has one major waterfall - the St. Anthony Waterfall which we could see from the observation deck at the museum.  

     -  Minneapolis means Waterfall + City.

     - The explosion of the mill was caused by flour dust and could be felt as far away as Stillwater.  

On the bus!

Learning more about the explosion.

Taking turns looking out onto the river.  

What a beautiful sight!

Explaining how water can be used for power.

Turn the turbine to make power!

Water Lab - Bridges in the water

Water Lab - Water is Power

Water Lab

The river was also used for bringing logs to the sawmills in the area.

Try to get your logs to the correct mill.

Nature Haikus

Thursday we had an opportunity to use the iPads to create something on an app called Haiku Deck.  Tuesday, we went out to look through the school grounds for something beautiful or unique as a part of nature.   Each student took notes about the object and then we came in and wrote haikus about the objects.

Thursday Ms. Zbacnik gave us some instruction about taking photos using the iPad and then we went back to our object and took three pictures.  Next, we logged on to Haiku Deck, uploaded the picture, typed our poem and then published it.  Here are the finished projects!  They all turned out very well and each one highlights the object very well.

It was a fun project!  Thanks Ms. Z and Mrs. Biros for your all of your help!

Paired Readings

We have been working very hard to learn our paired readings for our performance on June 9th.  We practice daily for about 30 minutes.  We are reading and reading and reading.  We are working on fluency, expression and pacing.  Oh and volume!  There is something about "performing" that lowers automatically our voices.

Each pair introduces themselves and their reading.  We are practicing how to hold our readings and project our voices.

We are looking forward to our performance!  Hope to see you there!