Friday Newsletter 10/19

This is going to be a long post. Warning you now, but when we do a lot of science labs there are a lot of pics to be taken! I will post the Red Ribbon week pics in a later post because I didn't want to overwhelm you with pictures.

OK lets dive on in!

I was so excited when I found this worksheet in one of Pine Creek workbooks! So of course we had to do it!

So I tried to grade the tests on Sunday night...look who tried to help me out! If there are any mistakes it was not my fault, blame the dog if there are any grading faux paus!

The kids were working with 3D figures, and they were observing the edges, faces, and vertices! 

Happy Happy Birthday Lizzie!

So, a little back story before you read the next picture. We were learning about how DNA copies itself. A mini lesson with DNA for ya, A and T bases form together, and C and G form together, so when DNA separates down the middle A will always pair up with T and has no chance to pair up with C or G. The bases are like "puzzle pieces"  SO when I was teaching I told the students that when the DNA "unzipped" itself there were "free floating" bases in the cytoplasm drinking Diet Coke and eating M&M's waiting to get paired up. I was trying to give them a "visual" and they must have remembered it, look what they wrote for the essay portion on the test. I will not disclose the name! :)

This was the first lab we did this week. It was called Birds of Prey, they had to use tweezers to act as their beaks and pick up the "moths". They had to pick up orange, black, white, and newspaper moths and make observations of which were the easiest to pick up! Ask your student about more details!

Our second lab was to cut a butterfly about of a magazine and hide them around the room and outside! A lot of the students found some really neat places!

See if you can spot all the butterflies in each picture, some are difficult.

The last lab we did this week was learning how animals have adapted over time. The students were given an envelope and I gave them different supplies, and they had to adapt their beak to pick up bugs of the air (popcorn) worms from the ground (gummy worms) and fish of the sea (raisins)

 

Spotlight Students

"I had a really fun time playing the brain break Ameba even though we werent talking"

-Morgan Buzbee

 

"The 6th grade has a class president vote. For Miss Koch it is Drew and Alexis vs Isaac and Dalton. so please help them try and win" "PS Vote for Isaac and Dalton"

-Alayna Wry

Whew, I am glad you made it to the end! I will post the pictures from drug free week later this week. I hope you are having a great weekend, see ya'll on Monday!

-Miss Koch :)