Please help us get a makeover!

Please take a moment to visit the following website and enter Cannon into the contest for a new playground.  Registration is really quick...once you sign up, you can enter once every day!!   This is a contest for Title I schools to receive a playground makeover.  Thanks for your help!!  Please share with your friends & families! :) 

http://www.togethercounts.com/at-school/win-for-your-school/sweepstakes

Butterfly Flutterby

On Oct. 19th, bring the entire family, even your pets, to celebrate the migration of the monarch butterfly from Canada to Mexico by way of Grapevine. The 16th Annual Butterfly Flutterby is a free, family-friendly event and will be held at the Grapevine Botanical Gardens for the first time. 

 Visit  http://www.gcisd-k12.org/Page/30377  for more information.

Toothpick Towers

The children this week came up with a plan and designed a tower out of 50 toothpicks and a small amount of playdoh.  Their goal was to build the tallest tower structure that is free standing on the table.  Here's how the groups did........

Choir

Today Cannon Cub Choir forms went home in your child's binder.  If your child would like to be in choir you need to fill out the form either by using the QR code or website that is located on the top of the form.  Registration needs to be done by Thursday, Oct. 3rd and the first choir practice will be Friday, Oct. 4th!

Back to school bash

Today the Dad's Club held their annual "Back to school bash".  It was a great day for a picnic and lots of fun. I enjoyed getting to see my kiddos and their families and visit with them.  I was able to capture a few photos......

Cantilever designing

This week we had a difficult design challenge that involved designing a cantilever that was the longest and did not touch the table.  The supplies that the children were given were 50 toothpicks and a small amount of clay.  Here are their creations.......

Busy, busy, busy!

Apps, apps, and more apps.....  We have been downloading the apps on our ipads that we will be using in class this year.  The children should be starting to bring home their ipads soon.  One of the new features that they will be using is the app Evernote.   Instead of writing down each day what they are learning they will be taking a picture of it and putting it in their Evernote folder titled "What I'm learning"for you to view at home.

We have also been very busy learning about our Daily 5 stations.  Starting this week the children will be doing rotations that involve writing, listening, technology, reading, and word work.  We are very excited to get this started!

New schedule

Starting on Monday, September 16th our daily schedule will be changing a little.  Here is what our new schedule will look like......

7:35-8:00.    Breakfast, Announcements

8:00-10:00.   LA/SS with my home room 

10:00-10:20.   Engineering

10:20-11:10. Specials

11:10-11:40.  Recess

11:40-12:10.   Lunch

12:10-12:30.   Engineering

12:30-2:30.    LA/SS with Nelson's class

                       My home room will be with Ms. Nelson for Math & Science

2:30-2:45.      Switch classes & prepare for dismissal

Structure building

In Engineering this week the children have been working on building a structure that is strong enough to hold a tennis ball and withstand the wind from a fan without falling over.  Their supplies are:  5 pieces of copy paper, 10 straws, 10 Popsicle sticks, 1yd of string, and 1yd of tape.  Here's what they have created so far......

Building a table

Today was revision day on our table building.  Our goal was to revise our first plan to get our table top to hold as much weight (books) as possible.  We had 1 group's table able to hold 5 books, another 4, another group 3 and 3 groups able to hold 1!  Here's some pictures from today......

Structural engineering

We have been discussing structural designs and today we had the challenge of redesigning our index card tower from Friday.  The children's goal was to create pillars that would be strong enough to hold textbooks.  They were given the supplies of:  6 index cards and masking tape.  After the pillars were constructed we tested them by seeing how many textbooks they could hold.  Here's some of the towers....

And the one that held the most (38 books)