C's Science Night

The first grade studied a local river and salt marsh habitat over the course of the school year.  Last week, we were invited to visit the classroom to see what they learned.  My favorite part of Science Night was the fact that each student had to guide his or her family members through the exhibit and explain everything along the way.  C did this three times because family members arrived at different times over the hour.  He did a great job explaining everything; we are very proud of him!

Some of the things they learned about while studying the river and salt marsh are:

• charting air and water temperatures over the course of the year
• living vs. nonliving things found there
• life cycle of a salt marsh

C and R used magnifying glasses to look at samples of sand.

There were different types of rocks to compare.

C made a diorama of the river/salt marsh area.  His teacher showed his diorama to the class as an example of how it should be done!  He was very proud of this.

Science Night was great.  I love that our school has events like this to showcase the work of the students.