News From A Couple of Classrooms:
Geography students finished their pinatas! It will be interesting to see who hangs them as decoration and who choose to break them!
We are now visiting Norway and will be making a Lapland Felt Square this week and doing a Norwegian language game as we study their culture. Students should be working on their geography vocabulary cards as outlined in the parent email.
Science students did a great job on their homework! I love how excited they are when they share what they did. This last class they were treated to a portion of a video by Answeres in Genesis: Buddy Davis' Amazing Adventures, Extrememe Caving. They enjoyed making their own caves which they got to take home. The clay represents the sandstone and the sugar the limestone. After their clay has dried begin introducing water to the exposed sugar. Do this in increments without totally soaking the clay. As the sugar dissolves it will leave the hollowed out space. Students are welcome to bring their resulting caves back to class to show.
If your kids would like to grow their own stalagmites:
Supplies: 2 cups of hot water, charcoal briquettes, Epsom salts, shallow dish, food coloring optional
In the shallow dish stir one-half cup of epsom salts into the hot water. Add the rest of the Epsom salts and sir the mixture for 5 minutes. Place 3 charcoal briquettes in the dish and add a few drops of food coloring to the briquettes if you wish. Place the dish on a windowsill undisturbed. Within a few days crystals will have "grown" on the briquettes.
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