What makes up a bone?

These past few weeks in science have been awesome!! We have been taking a human body system and looking at the organs and how they function. We did this back in March, but now that testing is over, I decided to look at each system more closely. Today we made a model of the bone. They did so well. We looked at a picture of a bone that identified all of the parts and discussed them. I then handed out to them the procedures and they created an "edible" model of the bone. The supplies I used was tortilla shells, pull apart twizzlers, strawberry jam, graham crackers (lady fingers), and sugar wafers. (I would love to take credit for this lesson, but I found it somewhere else...http://science-mattersblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/body-systems-skeletal-system-edible.html). It was such an awesome lesson!! The kids really understood it and actually enjoyed eating their "bones"!!

Analyzing and Constructing Data

We revisited concrete and continuous data last week. Students received a task card where they were assigned data to collect. They needed to decided whether or not it was continuous or discrete and then how to represent the data. They did awesome!!! They were able to determine what kind of data it was, and then represent the data in an appropriate chart.

Science Fair

Science fair projects are due next Friday!! You should be wrapping up your experiments and starting your conclusion and starting to prepare your board. 

We have a field trip to the marine science

Center May 22 which costs $3, make sure students have their field trip forms and money by the 20th.

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all of my moms!! Thank you for sharing your wonderful children with me :)

Upcoming Events

May and June are a very busy time for us! Please visit my school website, http://dcpspublic.oncoursesystems.com/school/webpage.aspx?id=829354, for a calendar of events. Also, please make sure you are checking your child's binder every night; we send important papers home.