Week of Sept 29 - Oct 4

• Don't forget to sign up for SLCs!  Link is on my last blog post.  
• We need help after school on Friday.  I am hoping 5 or 6  8th graders (and a parent or two) will join chef Fred in serving Hawaiian BBQ after school.  The proceeds will go toward our 8th grade trip!

Our week was full of surprises and changes to our normal schedule. We started Writer's Workshop with Melissa, an expert teacher in humanities. She has a personal insight into high school English courses, having been a long term sub at a few high schools in our area. Her experience will greatly benefit our class as they prepare for the rigors of high school. 

In science, students started a lunar log as they learn about why we have night and day. In Zingy science, students learned about the periodic table, elements and the structure of atoms.  We created human balloon atoms. Students used red balloons to represent protons, white to represent neutrons and blue to represent electrons. It was hilarious to watch the neutrons and protons squashed together to make the nucleus as the neutrons ran (orbited) around them. 

Math time included finishing up ACE problems and deriving equations with two variables using triangle patterns. 

We started our art project, decorating shoes to complement our Walk A Mile In My Shoes poems. Niki was instrumental in making arrangements with the owner of ReInterpret to donate various supplies to our school so students could decorate their shoes.