Author Visit, Conrad Storad

 

We've been reading his books for over a month and he's finally here! Here's a video of our day!

Conrad Storad Video Link

Camp Read-A-Lot

 

Camp Video

The campout was so much fun! We started with Mrs. Hess doing trust falls, the rope, and the human knot. Then with Ms. Reyes, we did a game called Circle the Nine-Pin, and other fun games.  We had planned on going to the observatory, but the night was too cloudy and rainy to see any stars.

            Mrs. Nagy told a scary story. Lots of people thought it wasn’t scary, but different people had different opinions.  We then went through the school on an nighttime tour. After that, we watched The City of Ember, and made s’mores.

            In the morning, we woke up to music. We had a breakfast of mini boxed cereals with milk. It was a really good campout!

Earthquakes and Volcanoes

     I really liked the time when we exploded our VOLCANOES. when we  did it I saw  that  white  bubbly  stuff  popped out of the volcanoes . I did not know that vinegar could make the baking soda explode. My favorite part about making volcanoes was when we put wet strips of news paper on our volcanoes. Our volcanoes were so fun making them and exploding them and I hope we can do it again.

     I all so liked the time when we made EARTHQUAKES .I learned three very important things about the earth called Focus, Epicenter, and Fault. The Focus is the center of the earthquake, the Epicenter is straight above the Focus and the Fault is the where a crack is in the earth. I hope I can make a earth some time. I all so hope that Ohio never has an Earthquake or a Volcano.

Weathering and Erosion

   There are three types of erosion: wind, ice, and water. Water takes sediment downstream. It drops off at the end making a delta. Waves erode our beaches.  We can try to put a jetty in the middle of the ocean to stop the waves but it won’t work. It only helps a little. A house by the water can wash away because of the big waves you would not want to live by a beach. Also there are two types of weathering: physical and chemical.   Chemical weathering creates new forms of rock into different materials. Physical weathering only the size of the rock is changed.  Weathering changes a lot of things. A delta is formed by weathering. Water, ice, gravity, and wind is worked by weathered rock it is called erosion. In colder parts of Earth moving ice erodes landforms. Earth’s landforms are constantly changing.