Weekly Reflection: April 26

Reporters: Erin and Patrick   Photographer: Zach

 We put sediment (dirt) in a ice cube and we did experiments. We watched them melt over the days.  This shows a moraine and a few erratics deposited after our "glacier" melted.

 We hammered certain rocks and we watched what would happen to them after a couple of hits to see which rocks were soft and which ones were hard.

Take a look at what happened over time as the rocks got smashed!

Science By Patrick

This week in science we were experimenting with the hardness of rocks. We ground the rocks together and banged them with a hammer.  Some rocks broke down a lot and some rocks didn't break.

Reading by Erin

This week in reading we have been learning about Amelia Earhart and The Wright Brothers. After reading about them, we had to come up with words that describe their personalities. We also also got to watch videos on each one of these people. We had a good time watching the videos and learning about them.

Weekly Reflection: April 19

Reporters: Conor and Ben   Photographer: Nathan

Poetry Workshop with Bill Buczinsky

Mr. Bill talks about poems

Poetry with Mr. Bill by Ben
During this week, Mr. Bill came in and taught us about poetry. First he presented to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. Then he presented to 1st and 2nd grade. After all that he met with some of the classes in the library and our class was one of them. In the library he taught us that in a book you can take one of the sentences and mix it in your mouth, spit it out, and put it on the table to see if the new sentence makes sense.  If it doesn't than you try it again. He also said that there are no rules in poetry and that made us want to do more poetry.


River Tables by Conor
During this week we added things to our river tables like a rock, a dam, and a larger source of water,
as well as changing the speed. My group did the rock in the middle of the river table. Then we watched the other groups do their things. I thought this was a very fun experiment. The dam had all the water added up and never went over. With my group the water just went around the rock. The group with used more water, the water went fast. The group that tested the speed of the water, the water went speeding. This was very fun.

Weekly Reflection: April 12

Reporters: Maura and Lauren  Photographer: Will

The materials we used for the water tables project.

 After we tested the river tables with water  this is what happened. 

River Tables by Maura
On Friday we set up river tables. We put sand on the first 15cm.  Then we taped a cup with a hole on it, on rulers, on the tin river tables. The river tables had holes in the end so someone had to hold a bucket at the end and let the water plop into it. We propped the river table up with a wooden block. Then we got a cup full of water and poured it in the cup with the hole in it. We watched the water flow through forming the river and ending in the bucket waiting for the water to slowly drain into it. To end the lesson we went on an app called Explain Everything, took a picture of our river table and made a video with captions and arrows. It was lots of fun!


Enrichment Clusters by Lauren
On Friday we had a presentation for an enrichment cluster. Mrs. Corley came in to tell us about the  CDW.  She explained how to get into a business like hers. She told us all about the CDW. One really interesting fact about the CDW is that the building is so big that her custumers drive around in golf carts.  When we were done we got to see some commercials that her company made. After that we got a bag full of CDW products.