Fraction Art!

Chemical and Physical Changes

Representatives from the Children's Discovery Museum in Salt Lake came to do a presentation for the 5th grade!  Later in the day we got to hypothesis what would happen when we mixed two substances together, make observations, and classify the changes as either physical or chemical.  Don't we look cute in our lab goggles?

Meal worms!

Studying meal worms covers two points from our heredity unit!  1) they go through a life cycle 2) all their responses are inherited traits.  We have been observing the meal worms as they go through their life cycle.  We also did a lab where we saw how the meal worms respond to various stimuli.  Although all the students aren't fond of the "gross" meal worms, we sure are learning a lot from them!

Guest Expert

Nick Peterson, studying genetics at BYU, came to our class as a guest speaker!  He taught us about Mendel's experiments and punnett squares.

School Spelling Bee

We had a class spelling bee and sent our top spellers--Kylie, Alanna, and Tahlia--to the school spelling bee.  Alanna got second place!  Congratulations to all who participated!

VOLCANOES!

This past week we made models of volcanoes and then erupted them with baking soda and vinegar!  It was super fun!  Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures... but I do have pictures of the three models I made (one of each type of volcano: composite, cinder cone, and shield).  I hope your students have fun making their volcanoes erupt at home.

Ceramics!

My roommate Camila is a master's student studying sculpture, so I asked her to come to our class to do ceramics!