Trying couscous
Tenielle Manson comes to our classroom to teach lessons on nutrition. Our favorite part of nutrition class is trying new foods. Today, we tried couscous. The kids loved it.
Physical Science Students Create SLOW FLIERS
To continue investigating speed, students created paper air planes with the goal of making the slowest flying plane. Many different designs were tried and the slowest flying plane was constructed by Isaac Medlin and Lexie Metzner. Their plane flew 1.07 meters per second.
Biology students investigate enzyme activity by creating apple juice
Students used an enzyme, Pectinase, to create apple juice in order to study how enzymes function.
Biology students investigate cell membranes and enzyme activity
Biology students created models of the cell membrane and placed enzymes and starch inside the model cells to demonstrate how a membrane can be selectively permeable. They also learned the importance of careful experimentation, as some students got inaccurate results due to procedural errors.
Spanish/Health/Elementary PE
Spanish Spanish I and Intro to Spanish students are learning to greet people and introduce themselves, asking how someone is feeling, where they are from and saying goodbye. They are also using the Spanish alphabet to spell, using numbers to count and tell their age,…
High Five Friday, Student Council
Student Council decided in their last meeting to follow along with the Random Acts of Kindness that we are doing in my class. They voted to start doing High Five Friday’s every Friday until the end of the year. Student Council members will be out…
Chart and graphing skills
We concluded chapter 2 in math by reviewing all of the different types of graphs and charts we learned about. Each student had the same data and had to draw from a bucket which type of graph they had to make.
Mark Twain Cave
We went to the Mark Twain Cave in Hannibal, Missouri! Afterwards, we went to a local park ate lunch and played on the playground!
8th Grade Science Students Model the Rock Cycle
Students are studying the rock cycle and the processes that change rocks from one type to another. They modeled rocks with 4 different types of minerals and transformed the rocks with different processes. Luckily for the students, the rocks they created were edible and tasty…
Field Trip to Mark Twain Cave
We went to the Mark Twain Cave for our field trip. After the cave, we went to the park to eat and play on the playground before heading home.
Learning about inventions
For a week we were reading several different autobiographies about inventors and how their inventions came to be. One was Thomas Edison and how he used static electricity to come up with a few inventions. We modeled this with rubbing balloons on our heads.