This week in science- caroline

This week in science has been really fun! We are doing projects on our spheres and we can do what ever we want to do with them we can make a video,song,google Earth etc. Our group decided to do a video on the lithosphere and focus on EARTHQUAKES!! So we did a few things in our video we interviewed a few teachers, gave an example, and explained how earthquakes are formed. It was really fun and what was ironic was there was an EARTHQUAKE last night!

The final Blog Post

Final Post
By Julia Ventura
Wow it has been an amazing science year! I can't believe how fast it has gone by it felt like just yesterday that we were starting Earth Science! I have learned so much about the Earth this year! Like before this year I didn't now what converging, diverging and transform boundries were! I think that the project we are doing this week is really creative and fun! We get to use our imagination and try to make learning fun for next years and this years students! There have so many things this year that have impacted the earth. Some examples are the earthquake in Haiti, the volcano in Iceland, and of course the disaster that is still happening.......... the oil spill.  This oil disaster has been happening for a little under 2 months and will effect our earth for a least 20 years! I hop they stop the oil soon!
Thank you to Mrs Baumgardner for being such a great teacher and teaching us so many wonderful things about our planet! Have a great summer everybody!

this week update

This week has been really cool! We are learning about renewable and unrenewable resources. On Monday and Thursday we worked in an google Earth project. We also get to write a letter to the new 6th graders. I am really excited I have already written down my draft and found my article. I made a lot of connections throughout the letter and i'm really happy about it. Also we startes working on our islands during class I finally finshed my field guide and are on to research. Tommorow is our last science day of the week I wonder what were doing. Can't wait to find out!

This Week in Science by Julia

This week in science was fun and creative! We are working on our Islands! We built them out of clay and paint! It was so fun! Our Island was Madagascar. We learned a lot about our Island, like the organisms, the culture, the geography, and the people. The animal I chose to study was the Brooksia Chameleon. I learned a lot about the Chameleon, like did you know that they change their color to express their mood to other chameleons, and they are only 30mm long! I really enjoyed learning about Madagascar! Have a great week!

News update

This week has been one of my favorite weeks in science yet except for the hot air balloons week that was my favorite. We are all working on our islands! Our groups island is Madagascar. We have to have a field guide a island pop up and a borchure. We just finished our Island and it looks great! I'm really excited about this project. For my field guide my animal is the ring tailed lemur I love them. I am really happy we are doing this project and can't wait  to see what's next!

Ians News

Well the satellite Hubble turn 20! They wont give the date so I don't know. But they did give us some pictures taken by Hubble. Here is the link to the pictures http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/slideshow/photos-final-frontier-1884336 I hope you enjoy those AMASSING pictures. As Julie has already said there is an oil spill in the gulf of Mexico Kemp Turtle is in a lot of trouble because of this oil spill. A man planed a terrorist attack on New York town square. He planted a bomb on his car and tried to run it in to town square. The old man who robed the Bank of America robed another bank. This time with no air tank. I hope you like this new episode of Ian's News

Islanders

This week has been very fun and rather easy. On Monday we build our island (Madagascar) out of the mix Mrs.B provided for us. We thought it was easy and yesterday we painted our island and our animals. I made the fossa and then painted it. Today we only had to write the scale and draw a compass rose. Also today we had a speaker come to our classroom and talk to us about turtles. We learned about the seven types of turtles. Did you know that they are all indangered? It is very sad what is happening and I wish them luck in the future! I liked the hands on lessons this week and I hope we'll have more of them in later in the year.

-BeAu