Homework:
Math:
6th: Mixed Review Algebra #s 30-35
7th: page 738 #16-19 and #32
ALL:
English:
Elephant Story and Questions
Spelling:
ABC Order Unit 3 (Words on blog)
Current Events Article due Friday!
Notes:
In our Current Events class, we read and summarized an article entitled
Cluster Balloonist Jonathan Trappe Attempts To 'Fly' Across The
Atlantic
from Dogo News. http://www.dogonews.com/2013/9/22/cluster-balloonist-jonathan-trappe-attempts-to-fly-across-the-atlantic.
In the article, North Carolina resident Jonathan Trappe has a fun hobby - He 'flies'
around the skies seated in an office chair that is attached to a cluster
of helium balloons. In 2012, at the Leon International Balloon Festival in Mexico, he even 'pulled' a Carl Fredericksen by flying a replica of the house that was featured in 'Up'.
In our English class, we also read the short story Seventh Grade by Gary Soto. In the story it deals with setting goals for yourself throughout the school year. We also discussed making inferences in stories based on our own life experiences. We discussed stories and movies that have believable characters as well. A believable character is one that is realistic, or one that reminds you of a real person.
Using the scientific method in Science, we performed an experiment that dealt with dissolving sugar crystals in different temperatures of water in class and did a lab report on it. We found out that the cold water isn't able to
dissolve as much sugar as the hot water, but why? Another name for the
liquids inside the cups is a 'solution', when this solution can no
longer dissolve sugar it becomes a 'saturated solution', this means that
sugar starts forming on the bottom of the cup.
The reason the hot
water dissolves more is because it has faster moving molecules which are
spread further apart than the molecules in the cold water. With bigger
gaps between the molecules in the hot water, more sugar molecules can
fit in between.
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