Pumpkin Head Biography Projects

Rain Gauges

As we completed our weather unit, Mrs. H-B planning a project for our class to make rain gauges. We made them out of 2 liter bottles. We had so much fun making rain gauges and now we know have something we can measure the rainfall in!

Critical Thinking Challenge: Building the Tallest Tower

Every Friday our class participates in a Critical Thinking Challenge. Mrs. H-B breaks us up in teams of 4-5 and we have a task we have to accomplish in 30 minutes. She gives us the only materials we can use and we have to brainstorm how to accomplish the goal. We use the 7 Habits of Happy Kids to helps us accomplish the task and work together as a team. During this critical thinking challenge, Mrs. H-B gave us 40 straws and 1 rubber band. Our task was to build the tallest building using ONLY the straws, wrappers, and rubber band. Check out out towers below!

Cougars by Roper

A cougar`s yell sounds like a human scream. The cougar is also called the mountain devil. The cougar has six more names one of them is lord of the forest, puma , panther, painter, wildcat, or mountain lion. As soon as a baby cougar is born the mother licks there paws one by one. Baby cougars are called kittens like house cats. There mostly no dad cougars because they might eat the kittens. There are two kittens and a mom. Usally the cougars den`s are in crevices near rocks. Kittens are playful when they are kittens. Stay away from cougars.

By: Roper Bickley

Technology in Our Classroom

Our classroom is full of technology and we are very thankful for that! Mrs. HB ensures that we each are able to get our hands on technology every day in our classroom. She lets us play games and review lessons on the SMARTboard, we can play games and look at educational websites on one of our desktop computers, we can type and publish stories on our other desktop, and Mrs. HB even lets us play Everyday Math games on her iPhone using the free Everyday Math apps. Mrs. HB wants us prepared for the 21st century and to do that she teaches us how to use technology in ways that will help advance our academic skills.

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Critical Thinking Challenge

Each Friday our class participates in a Critical Thinking Challenge. These challenges have to be completed with a team and without any help from Mrs. HB. The Critical Thinking Challenges are meant to build out of the box thinking, creative thinking, team work strategies, etc. A challenge we recently had was when each team was given a paper bag full of random supplies and they had to build a boat that would take them from the town of Chewandswallow to the new town that the residents moved to. They had 30 minutes to construct a boat that would float in a sink full of water. The boats they created were incredible! Great job, HBees!!

Oreo Project

The last few weeks have been consumed with the famous Oreo cookie in our classroom. We have had a blast with this delicious cookie! We measured, estimated, weighed, compared, stacked, and ate Oreos during the last few weeks. This is always one of the most favorite projects of the year! Check out our stacking pictures below!