July 23, 2026
We started our morning moving our bodies to help us get ready to learn. After our warm-up, we reviewed our classroom rules.
Calendar
D: July 23
K: Thursday
K/ D: *counts in Japanese
* Review
K: Look at speaker
Y: ears listening
T: ……
J: Sit up like a giraffe
M: Hands and feet quiet
D: Lips closed
Today, we tried to answer , “Can we bend wood? we recalled the materials we learn this past few weeks. We remembered that paper,fabric, yarn and plastic can all bend, while metal can bend and stay in it’s shape. Most of us answered that we can’t bend wood because it would break. To test our answer, each of us were given a popsicle stick. We carefully tried bending it, and it snapped into two pieces.
Question of the day
R: Can we bend wood?
Y: 2! * counts friends who answered Yes in English
D: 8! * counts friends who answered “no” in English
E:Yes, because I can bend a leaf. In the middle of leaf is wood.
T: I don’t know
M: No, because when you cut with scissors and the wood , you already break it.
D: NO, your hand is going to break
Ki: When you use your hand it’s going to be too hard. Some house is made of wood. wood is hard. Wood is strong.
D: NO, because wood is very hard to bend.
J: Wood is very strong
D: When you press the plastic it can bend a little
J: pipe cleaner can bend
E: It’s the one that we used to make waffle.
E: I can’t
J: It’s breaking
M: it’s breaking
What is the right answer for our question of the day?
Flowers: No!
What will happen to the popsicle stick if we put it the pot filled with boiling water?
L: not break
D: break
What is boiling water?
E: There’s bubbles. * makes boiling sound
Why are there bubbles in the water?
D: Because it’s boiling
Our teacher showed us a pot filled with water. She asked us what will happened if we boil the popsicle stick. We shared our predictions before putting the stick in the boiling water. After a few minutes, we tried bending the stick and this time, we were surprised . Instead of breaking, the stick bent without breaking.
* Stem Activity
Can we bend the wood now?
Flowers: Wow! Yes!
M: Can I try?
Do you think we can bend wood?
Flowers: Yes!
If we boil these pieces of wood, do you think we can bend it?
Flowers: NO!
Why?
M: This don’t have the hole
K: This one is bent (popsicle stick) These are hard
Today we read, From Wood to Pencil. This book helped us learn how pencils are made. We learned that one cedar tree can make 170,000 pencils!
* Book
D: From Wood to Pencil
What is lead?
E: Leg. * point to his leg
How many pencils can one tree make?
Jaejun: 100 pencil?
Why do they need to plant two trees if they cut one tree?
J: When we cut all of the trees, there’s no trees
K: The tree that they plant is little.
Where do see the lead ?
M: dark
D: inside the pencil
Today’ s lesson taught us that sometimes our prediction is correct , and sometimes our little investigation can help us discover something completely new. Thank you and have a nice day
Love,
Flowers