Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Volume

Look at the picture below.  Ask your fourth grader (don't ask 4L students until Friday) to tell you how to determine the volume of the toy dinosaur.  

**BONUS** Can you locate the meniscus? 

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Cloud Mobiles

Students in third grade learned about the different types of clouds that can be observed in the sky.  Each student constructed a cloud mobile of the three main cloud types.  Ask your student to tell you about the roots of the names.  

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Amplification

2nd graders were amazed by the Star Wars sounds that were created by hooking a HUGE, garage door spring up to a coffee can amplifier.  Ask your student to tell you about it!  Afterward each student constructed their own rubber band amplifier.  Hopefully your child's amplifier remained in tact on the ride home.

 

 

More Fabulous Extra Credit

The 6th Grade students continue to research and present interesting extra credit projects.  This week we learned about the dominant and recessive genes associated with variation in eye color, the two types of melanin: euomelanin and pheomelanin that determine hair color, and The Copernican Revolution.  

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