{#DotDay16}

The Twosies loved celebrating International Dot Day!

International Dot Day celebrates the message presented in Peter H. Reynold's Book, The Dot, that everyone has the potential to leave their mark on the world. It all begins with being brave enough to start with just a dot.

We of course began the day by reading the book and discussing the author's message.

We also brainstormed and wrote about ways that we as second graders could make our mark in our homes, school, and community.

We later celebrated Dot Day with a STEM Challenge!

The students were given Dots candies, toothpicks, and 15 minutes to construct the tallest tower that they could.

When time was up, the teams had to take a step back. They were very disappointed to find that many towers fell shortly after removing their hands. The teams then had to analyze their structures and think about how they could improve upon their plan to ensure that the tower could support itself. (While eating their Dots of course!!)

{Fire Safety}

Oconee County Fire Department came and talked to our students about Fire Safety.

The students got to practice "Stay low, and Go" in the Fire Safety House.

We also got to see a firefighter in his gear... 

...and check out the gear on the ladder truck.

Thank you Oconee County Fire Department! 

{What's the Matter?}

Our Matter Unit was great! The Twosies were able to learn about the three stages of matter and explore the properties of matter. They were able to experiment with changing matter from one state to another, too! Luckily, this involved a lot of food!!

The Twosies sort the three types of matter:

Here we are going on a Matter Hunt around the school. We're on the lookout for all three types of matter!

We represented the molecules in the three different states of matter using Cheerios...

Properties of liquids were observed with these two experiments...

Gummy bears were changed by different liquids:

We watched solids release gases with Pop Rocks and Cokes:

 We blew up ivory soap in the microwave... 

Ivory soap is full of air bubbles that expand when they are filled with heat!

We ended our unit by enjoying Root Beer Floats 

because they represented all three states of matter at once!!