We Went Exloring

This morning in math we broke into three different groups and used three different ways to practice our multiplication facts.

This afternoon, we went out to a little forest. It was next to the cemetery. We explored and wrote down our findings about that ecosystem. The parts of the ecosystem we observed were soil, plants, bugs, trees, rocks, grass and water. There was no grass. Our plan is to compare the information to the facts we get tomorrow at the salt marsh.

Emma shared an article that her dad found (thanks, Mr. Dawson!) about European scientists that found 32 new planets outside of our solar system.

That was our exciting day!

Tune in next time!

From Aidan and Cowan in Room 3

Solar System Walk

Today, we went to Bialek Park to make a model of the solar system. Bialek Park was a big spot that we could use, because the solar system is so huge. The scale we used was one step = 10 billion steps in the solar system. So our model was a very miniature solar system. We put the planets in order from the sun. Cones marked where the planets and sun would be. We put down a cone, then we used a chart to tell us how many steps to go to the next planet. At each cone, people shared facts about the planets that they had researched. As the distances grew bigger, we could only get halfway to Uranus, because we ran out of room!

After we made our solar system model, we played some fun games like snakes in the grass, blob tag, toilet tag and a pie game. We couldn't play on the playground, because there was some construction there. Walking back to school, we got lots of people to beep to us.

It was a fun solar system day!

by Olivia and Jake

Today was Science Day!