I Will Care For You COMPLETE SONG

Here is the complete video to music for comprehensive practice. Have Fun!

I Will Care for You....Part 2 (Instructional and To Music)

INSTRUCTIONAL
I will take my brother by the hand;
I will close my eyes to indignation.


So together we can make a stand.
No division, we are one great nation.


BOTH PARTS TO MUSIC...

I Will Care For You...PART 1 (to Music)

If you ask me what I want from life;
I will tell you without hesitation.
Days of joy and peach and harmony;
Where all people live as one great nation!

I will care for you. I will see you through the bad times.
I will care for you. I will dare to do the kind thing now.

I Will Care For You...Part 1 (Instructional Videos)

Learn the sign language motions for Stanza 1 and the Chorus. These instructional videos will help you.

If you ask me what I want from life, I will tell you without hesitation. Days of joy and peace and harmony,

where all people live as one great nation.

Pennsylvania Connection...

Recently, Mrs. Phillips and Mr. Pinchot's homerooms had the unique opportunity to "skype" with third and fourth graders in the state of Pennsylvania. Through this experience, both sides were able to ask questions in order to learn points of interest regarding connections in science (weather), social studies (relevant history, famous people), and general facts about each others' schools and academic priorities. It was a wonderful experience that the students enjoyed. You can view our 20 minute conversation below! If you do, please leave a comment sharing your thoughts. We very much appreciate Mrs. Melanie Holstman for allowing us the opportunity to do this. We hope to find a classroom to make a new connection with in Fairbanks, Alaska later this year, as we have compared and contrasted their climate and weather conditions with our own here in Jacksonville, Florida through our math workshop. :-)

Skype with PA from Melanie Holtsman on Vimeo.

Ice Cream Cooler

Hey there, Mad Scientists! Here is an at-home experiment you might really enjoy! To make ice cream "feel colder" while you eat it, you will need: 2 bowls, ice cream, milk, a spoon. Put a couple of spoons of ice cream into each bowl. Taste a bite of ice cream from the first bowl. Notice how it feels, as well as how it tastes. Yes, I know that it is cold, but pay attention to how cold. Pour a couple of spoons of milk over the ice cream in the second bowl. Take a spoon of this ice cream, making sure that the surface of the ice cream has a coating of milk. As you eat this spoonful, again notice the temperature. It should feel colder. Just to be sure you notice the difference, alternate bites between the regular ice cream and the ice cream with milk until you are sure of the difference. This may take several bowls of ice cream.

Now think about this: Why would adding milk make the ice cream seem colder? It has to do with the transfer of heat. The ice cream feels cold because it has less heat than your mouth does. As heat moves from your mouth to the ice cream, you feel the cold. The faster the heat moves away from your mouth, the colder the ice cream feels.

Why would adding milk let the heat move faster? To see that, put a spoon of ice cream in a bowl and let it melt. I know that it may seem like a waste of good ice cream, but it is necessary. You can also use a very small spoonful, as we only need a little. Compare the melted ice cream with the milk.

What is the difference? The ice cream is much thicker. This thick mixture contains many tiny bubbles. These bubbles give ice cream its pleasing texture, but they also act as insulation, just like the tiny bubbles in Styrofoam and many other types of insulation. The milk does not have the bubbles and so it makes a much better pathway for the heat. The coating of milk on the ice cream carries the heat quickly from your mouth to the ice cream and you get a colder sensation.

Pretty neat! Leave a comment if you try this to let the class know your thoughts.

Be My Valentine!

Sharing Brownies

Our class has been studying fractions for the last two weeks and one of our big focuses has been finding fair shares of paper brownies. As a performance assessment recently, students were given a task of cutting a given number of brownies and showing how to equally share them among a

given number of people. Some big ideas that we have been learning in this first fraction investigation are:

1) The numerator identifies the number of given parts
2) The denominator tells the number of equal-sized parts to make up the "whole"
3) Fractions can be read as ratios (relating the part to the whole) in order to better understand the fraction (ex. the fraction "one-third" can also be read as
"one out of three" equal parts to combine to make one whole