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This Week in Science By Julia Ventura

This week in science was very fun on Monday we had challenge that we would be working on through out the week. We were assigned a bird and had to be experts on it. Our group got the Brown pelican and if you  look at Beau's blog post you will see a very "gripping" video of the Brown Pelican. Okay so it may not be the most interesting video ever but it does give you and idea of what we are studying. Our group got two options of what to pick for this challenge so we picked the "compose it" choice which means we had to write an original song about our bird.  It was fun and creative. We also got our biosphere tests back in the second session which I hope was good news for everybody.

The other day I saw on the news that there was a huge oil explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. I can't imagine how many species have been affected by the oil spill. Luckily people our taking action to clean this up, but it is really sad how one thing can mess up a whole ecosystem. You might thinking that there is nothing you can do to solve this problem but there is. Some of you have probably heard of the soap call Dawn. For those of you who have not it is able to clean animals off who have been effected by an oil spill and for every bottle you buy they clean an animal off. Ask your parents about buying Dawn soap. You can make a difference!

I think this week in science has been very fun and at times confusing. For our bird we got the Brown Pelican. This bird can migrate down to Mexico and then can go north to southern California after they hatch their eggs. You can see this bird around here most likely by the bay. This is a video about the awesome brown pelican: brown pelican rocks! This week in science we worked on the cd cover and the song. Julia and Caroline wrote the song and I made the cd cover. I think our project is very good and will hopefully get a good grade!My project was pretty easy and I think it could have been more chalenging if we had to make a cd case and download the song on a cd. I think that the 6th graders would really enjoy that next year. Overall I love making projects that last over a whole week! I liked it very much!

- BeAu

Weekly reveiw

I think this week in science has been very fun and at times confusing. For our bird we got the Brown Pelican. This bird can migrate down to Mexico and then can go north to southern California after they hatch their eggs. You can see this bird around here most likely by the bay. This is a video about the awesome brown pelican: brown pelican rocks! This week in science we worked on the cd cover and the song. Julia and Caroline wrote the song and I made the cd cover. I think our project is very good and will hopefully get a good grade!My project was pretty easy and I think it could have been more chalenging if we had to make a cd case and download the song on a cd. I think that the 6th graders would really enjoy that next year. Overall I love making projects that last over a whole week! I liked it very much!

- BeAu

Weekly reveiw

             This week in science we got to learn about a national park of our choice. The first day we came in after the weekend someone told me that Alcatraz was a national park. I wished I knew that before! Our team did the Grand Canyon as our national park. We learned a lot about the invasive and native animals in the Grand Canyon. Julia took charge and assigned the teams parts. I had the honor to do the native animal poster. I did some research and chose the coyote to do my poster on. I typed the description and the boatload of names it has. I printed out a picture and whala! It was finished. I thought that this project was fun and also very informational. Today I came into science not knowing what to expect. When I got the test I was overjoyed to find out that everything on the test I studied. For the last question I made the food pyramid but I put animals on there that wouldn't eat each other. :( I think that i will still get at least a 90%. But if I don't I have a 100% coupon to fall back on but I hope I don't have to use it. Overall I think this week was one of the best weeks this whole year! I can't wait until next week!

- BeAu

Food Chain Song

Food Chain Song: By Caroline
Sense the past week we have been learning about food chains I found two little kids singing a song about the food chain it goes A little fish a little fish swimming in the water a little fish a little fish gulp gulp gulp oh no eaten by an octupus an octupus an octupus swimming in the water an octupus an octupus gulp gulp gulp oh no eaten by an tuna fish a tuna fish a tuna fish swimming in the water a tuna fish a tuna fish gulp gulp gulp oh no eaten by a great white shark a great white shark a great white shark swimming in the water a great white shark a great white shark gulp gulp gulp eaten by a humogus whale. And thats were it ended.



This week in science: By Julia Ventura
This week in science we only had two sessions because of Science Discovery Day, but we learned a lot and had fun! We started off the week getting into our biosphere unit, we took notes on the food chain and carnivores (meat eaters), Omnivores (plant and meat eaters), Herbivores (Plant eaters only), and decomposers. In the second session we watched a powerpoint on biodiversity and took notes on biodiversity!
      Science Discovery Day was really fun! I think my favorite class was the Super science class in Mrs. Stine's room. I liked it because we got to learn all about electricity an body heat. I had a great time and i hope you did too! Have a great spring break and a Happy Easter! See you after the break!

Goals

I like session 3 this week. I think that we could have made a competition out of it though. We could have had our sheet and we would look through the book to find the awnsers. We basicly didn't have to do any work and that is not helping our grade. I dropped from a 4 to a 3 last trimester. I want to work harder this trimester and get my grade back up to a 4. I am going to do that by doing any extra credit possible and always go above and beyond. I think that my team is going to win blog spot of the week at least once this trimester and hopefully be in the running for the championship of the grade. Those our my goals for this trimester! GO TELETUBBIES!

US!!!! As Teletubbies

Ian's News

Well tomorrow is my birthday. I'm turning 12! Anyways back to Ian's new. Dancing wit the stars started tonight.Three days before Christmas, a man in a Santa suit robbed a bank in Nashville. The FBI was investigating the case, but it was still unsolved ... until Wednesday. That's because on St. Patrick's Day, the same guy did the exact same thing. Except this time, he was dressed as... you guessed it... a LEPRECHAUN. According to police, 20-year-old David Cotton is the man responsible for both robberies. Both he and his getaway driver... a 20-year-old college student named Jonathan Skinner ... were KILLED in a shootout with police while leaving the bank. Officials say there are two pieces of evidence linking David to the Christmas robbery: 

#1.) When they searched his house, they found a Santa costume.

#2.) And David made similar comments to the tellers during each of the robberies.

One of the most entertaining websites on the Internet right now is ChatRoulette.com. It randomly pairs up webcam users with strangers around the world, and the site's just filled with freaks. The website showed a guy in a cheetah. 89% of Chat Roulette users are men, and about 70% of them are between the ages of 20 and 40. That means 11% of Chat Roulette users are women. They tend to skew a little younger, with 23% under the age of 20, and 97% under the age of 40. 47% of Chat Roulette users are from the United States. After that, the country with the second-greatest showing on the site is France at 15%. The five MOST dependable cars on the market are: 

#1.) Porsche 

#2.) Lincoln 

#3.) Buick

#4.) Lexus 

Full credit of this information goes to AJ in the morning Stupid News http://ajmornings.com/main.html