Tuesday, May 17th, 2017

This afternoon was very interesting.  We started off with music and today we learned about Beethoven.  Share what you learned about this composer with your family.

In math, we continued our work on fractions. Many of us wondered about "why are fractions are important to us."  We watched a video about how we use fractions each and everyday.  We learned a new game today. This game not only allowed us to practice making fractions of a group but also we learned about equivalent fractions.

We had a surprise lockdown drill today. Our teachers were very proud of how we did. We were calm, quiet and new exactly what to do.

In science, we broke into groups of four; two engineers and two scientists.  We will be developing a wind turbine that we can use on Mars.  We are currently gathering information about how they work, and using the information about Mars to design the best possible turbine to generate power.  Today we brainstormed all that we know about wind turbines as well as some of the problems that we think may happen because we are building on Mars.  Tomorrow we will continue our research and then we with all of our information will begin to draw a prototype of our design.

1.) Please return Astrodome and Foothills Soccer Acknowledgement of Risk and Parent Consent Forms

2.)  Volunteer Tea on Thursday morning

3.)  Please check out previous blogs about EcoClub - on Saturday, May 28th

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If half of the people in a family are males.  What might be the number of people in the family and how many would be male and how many would be female?