Weekly Reflection: May 17

Reporters: Madison and Sakurako  

Slavery by Madison Slavery
This week in history we've been studying slavery. I've learned about the trading in West Africa, the journey on the ship, and when they got to America. I find slavery a very bad thing in our history. But it is interesting to learn about. Slaves made some very hard choices (though none of them were good) I would never want to make.  I am glad slavery ended long ago.

Heroes Project by Sakurako                     
This week we read Harry the Tarantula to learn how to ask "juicy" question of our guest speaker. We learned from the book to ask add on questions to the "skinny" questions to make the person think a little, to help us get more details in the person's answers.

Weekly Reflection: May 10

Reporters: Josh and Susie   Photographer: Grace

This volcano's eruption was made from Coke and Mentos. It was very explosive as you can see!

This volcano erupted very smoothly going down.

This volcano also erupted very smoothly and slowly like the one above it. 

Model Volcanoes by Josh

This year our class was given the chance to build model volcanoes. Mine was made of dough, and the eruption soaked the dough, so mine didn't work well. The first picture shows a volcano made by Zach. It used a 2-liter bottle with only  1 Mento, not the limit of two.

WEX by Susie

Instead of  publishing books on our own, this year we are allowed to work with partners. I am finding it  very interesting because you can't just assume your partner will be okay with what you type. Also you each have your own characters and you have to fit them together in a story somehow.

Weekly Reflection: May 3

Reporters: Evan and Charles  Photographer: Lucy

Rube Goldberg

We finished the week looking at some Rube Goldberg designs.  Rube created inventions intended to make like easier, but the tasks were more challenging than needed. This is a Rube Goldberg machine we created that is used to open a drawer. The only thing the man has to do is pick up a bowl.

4th Grade Performance by Charles
Our performance was about the Native Americans.  During our performance we performed Native American games like the Ma-Koo Ay (Stick Game) and we sang songs like the "Circle of Thanks" and "Dream Catcher". It was pretty fun to teach others about Native Americans through our performance.

An Egg is like the Earth by Evan
This week we learned about the layers of the Earth.  We used an egg as a model.  The shell was like the crust- thin and fragile.  The egg white was like the mantle where magma is found.  The yolk is like the core.  Here it is the hottest.