Motion and Design Thursday

Today we built our first vehicles in science. The design had to go at least 1 meter, with no limit on time. Every one's vehicles worked! You can see what they look like above. Before science we had Art. In art we worked on our watercolor paintings of what we did during any vacation. We also matted them. After specials and science we listened to Mr. Hendricks read The People of Sparks. Today Lena and Doon explained how all the people got out of the city of Ember. All of the people from Ember seem pretty tired and sick. We took a Word Study quiz today. After word study we read our library books, to prepare for our February book report. We are going to be adding on to a wiki that Mr. Hendricks made. Then we read chapter 16 of Hatchet. Today, Brian got trampled by a moose, and we think he broke his ribs. Then, after he fell asleep, he heard some weird rumbling in the distance. It was a tornado! It injured him worse, but he said, "I hope the tornado got the moose!" Plus, he is now hopeful, because he knows he can survive anything. We have vocabulary and cause/effect due tomorrow. We have math in a little bit. We are studying how to subtract and add fractions. We are also doing stem and leaf plots. Today we have a test. Some of our classmates have just begun chapter 7, which deals with exponents and scientific notation! YIKES!

Talk to you tomorrow!

Maria and Alex