We made blue bead bracelets like the Shoshone indians used as money.

We had fun seeing the Rosa Parks play at the Paramount!

World Nutella Day!

Today was World Nutella Day! James brought in little cans of Nuttela for the whole class.

It's February

We looked at real cells with the middle schoolers.

We gathered seeds like the Maidu indians.

We used sticks and seeds to make seed beaters like the indians in California did.

We made a model of the human backbone with noodles for the vertebrae and gummys for the cartilage and we got to eat a few gummys.

We used books and figured out all the names for the bones in the skeleton. We played Simon says but with the bones in the body.

McKenzie's mom brought us in a skeleton named Harry. 

And she showed us some x-rays and taught us about bones!

We made a model of the inside of the bone. It has a paper tube and paint, some clay and some fluff, and a Twizzler for the bone marrow.

Some kids made the bone open and some kids made the bone closed like Loick.

Meeting Heming in Hong Kong

Today we talked to Heming online with Skype! 

When we talked to Heming he showed us sea glass and the biggest one was really big, about the size of a cookie cutter. He showed us a card that was called an octopus card! - Sasha

We learned about all the kinds of money in Hong Kong. A ten dollar bill you could see right through it! There was also gold and silver coins that I was able to see. A bunch of people were crowding in to see. But it was fun to see Heming all the way in Hong Kong. We are going to do that much more often. - Cole

The week where everyone was sick and it didn't snow

We played a cool game called Zoombinis  where you solve a bunch of logic puzzles.

We are also making Native american notebooks.

Back to business!

Everybody in our class is doing book club books. The book I'm reading is about a little boy named Walnut who can hear really well and say what's coming. It's Sees Behind Trees. Some people are reading Island of the Blue Dolphins or Kokopelli's Flute and Sign of the Beaver. All of the books are Native American stories.  

We made Cell cities on paper and there were all kinds of things we had to do like the mitochondria which is the power plant and the mayor which is the nucleolus. 

This week we started Monster Projects and that is where you have to make a monster and then describe it the best way you can and have another person try to draw it and see if they were right. We are having to do lots of drafts because it's really hard to describe it!

We made sheets about fractions where we made patterns with pattern blocks and used stencils to trace them. Then we colored them and made the key which said what fraction of the whole thing each shape was. First I divided up the whole things into hexagons because all the other shapes fit in that and then I did the rest from there. 

Bird Day!

Tuesday was bird day! We learned a lot about birds. We played bird Jeopardy and it was awesome.

This is a picture of Aaron and Venetia. Venetia is measuring Aaron's wingspan.

This is me timing James's flapping rate. 

This is me with condor 19. They are very rare! 

This is Sasha looking up information for her bird field guide.

We looked at a skeleton and a bird's nest to study birds.

-Jules

We put oil on a little bird and then a water drop. We blew it around and it showed that bird wings are waterproof. 

It was funny how everyone was always trying to hear their birds sounds in this huge book!-Pati

We wanted to find

some birds but we didn't find any.

We looked for pine cones to make bird feeders.

We made bird feeders to help the birds eat some seeds this winter.