What’s Happening in Science – 10/20 to 10/24

This week we are learning about motion in our Week 8 Newsletter. We will test on Thursday. Our test will consist of 15 questions. It will be 9 questions from the newsletter and our six vocabulary words.

Monday —

Today we are going over our six new vocabulary words pictured below or on NB page 32. We are also reading page 1 of our newsletter and the portion about Robert Goddard.

Tuesday –

Today we are reading about how fast waves travel and reading A World in Motion. We will create a notebook page on NB 33. This will be our first daily work grade of the nine weeks.

Wednesday –

Today we are reading the Speeding Up and Giant Tractors section of our newsletter. We are also learning about Gravity. We will complete NB page 34 today.

Thursday –

Week 8 Quiz

Friday –

Today we will make a sundial if weather permits. Pictures to come 🙂

What’s Happening in Science 9/15 – 9/19 — All About Energy

This week in Science we are working on our Week 5 newsletter – All About Energy. We will take our Quiz on Friday. It will be 17 questions — 10 questions from the newsletter and 7 vocabulary. The vocabulary words are located on page 14 in our Notebooks or the picture is below.

Monday — We will review our vocabulary. We will read the Albert Einstein and Heat Energy sections from our newsletter. Then, we are creating page 15 in our Science notebook. This page will consist of us defining energy (the ability to do work) and we will illustrate it.

Tuesday —

We will review vocabulary words. Then, we will read Types of Energy from our newsletter and fill in our graphic organizer on NB 16. This will be our Daily Grade for the week. For anyone interested, I downloaded this graphic organizer on Teachers Pay Teachers. You can find it here.

Wednesday — We will review our vocabulary words. Today we are learning about renewable/non renewable resources. We will create a page about this on NB 17 in our Science Notebooks.

Thursday — We are reviewing for our Science Quiz, and we are also learning about fossil fuels. We will be working on NB pages 18 and 19 in our Science Notebooks. For anyone interested, I downloaded these pages from The Science Penguin on Teachers Pay Teachers. You can find it here.

Friday – Today we are testing on our newsletter, and students will have the rest of class time to work on any unfinished pages in their Science Notebooks. I will grade our Science Notebooks after we complete our Week 6 Newsletter.