Reading in the Classroom

In reading we read about lightning, thunderstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes. The story was called Eye of the Storm, Chasing Storms with Warren Faidley. It is a story about chasing huge and dangerous storms. Warren Faidley and his friend chased the storms around the world and took pictures. The pictures were fascinating and they gave me goose bumps. Warren kept a diary and in the story. The dairy was about chasing storms and his feelings about them. The reason he is a storm chaser is because when he was a boy he would watch lightning storms and then take pictures. People would buy his pictures to put in books, magazines and newspapers. We did this activity with the person sitting beside us. It is a very extraordinary story that has a lot of information on stupendous storms! I enjoyed reading this story a lot and it was a fun activity for the class. 
-Elizabeth Bourgault

This Week's Fantastic Project

This week our class did an awesome experiment. The question was..."Will the height of a ramp affect the distance the mini car will travel?"The class did this in groups of 4 or 5. The class had to work as a team to accomplish this.

The class learned that the higher the ramp was, the farther the mini car travels.The lower the ramp was, the shorter distance the mini car will travel.This took about 30 min. time.The class really enjoyed this experiment.

-Shyam

Draw a Scientist.

Starting on Tuesday, Mr Lemming assigned a challenge. He asked each table group to draw a scientist. From tattoos to huge belt buckles, everyone made  fantastic scientists. It took most of us almost two days to complete, although it all payed off. Every one was laughing and staring, both in amusement. On the second day, when Mr. Lemming rung the bell, everyone hurried to get their spectacular and crazy scientists done. We all finished though. I think that everyone had a great time. -Zoe Cornell

The Return of School

The past four days were filled with many challenges, activities, and games. Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures during the activities to give you a better idea of what we are doing. The underlying theme for everything we did in class was "community." With thirty bodies in a portable for 180 days it is inevitable there will be some disagreements and spaces invaded. To bring awareness to this and to reduce the number of conflicts I focus on creating a healthy community for the first several weeks of class. This focus creates an environment for the remainder of the year that is conducive to exploring the curriculum and challenging ourselves. Next week students will begin completing homework on their blogs. Prior to working on them, the students will be given specific details on how to access and update their blogs. In the beginning of using this medium students will not be able to view other student's blogs, as they use the blogs more they will be given more privileges and be able view one anothers. Next week I am hoping a student will be updating this blog. Until then, be well.