Turn it Up!

Hello Parents,

Swimming went great! All of the students worked and swam hard during the week. Thank you to all of the parents that helped with the trip.

SCIENCE:

In science we will be learning about sound. Here is some of the vocabulary that we will be using:

1. sound, energy that you hear

2. vibrates, sound is made when matter vibrates, or moves back and forth quickly

3. pitch, how high of low a sound is

4. volume, how loud or soft a sound is

Here is an sound experiment that you can do at home with your students.

Observe Sound

What you will need: a plastic jar, wax paper, small paper pieces.

1. Stretch a piece of wax paper over the opening of a jar. Use a rubber band to hold the wax paper in place.

2. Put paper pieces on top of wax paper.

3. Gently tap the wax paper. Tell what you see and hear.

Hoping that the rain ends soon,

The Roadrunner Teachers

Golden Years

Hello Parents,

Thank you for all the donations that you helped your students collect. The Roadrunners raised almost $500.00 for the MDA!

Swim lessons have been going well this week. We have the students in three different groups of seven. This insures that all of the students get the attention that they need to improve in their aquatic abilities. Mr. Butler has also joined the Roadrunners in the pool. This brings the student teacher ratio even lower.

This week is when we will do our spring egg hunt. Please make sure to have your student's eggs in by Friday morning. We will do the egg hunt on Friday before we leave for swimming.

Enjoy the sunshine,

The Fleet Foxes

Back in Black

Hello Parents,

Please turn in your Hop-a-Thon packets by Friday, April 15, 2011.

Remember that we start swimming lessons this next week.

In science class the students have just finished learning about matter. They learned about the three main states of matter (solid, liquid, gas) as well as two other states, plasma and Bose-Einstein condensate. The class observed several experiments about matter. One of the experiments dealt with air. For this experiment we used a two liter soda bottle and a balloon. I covered the top of the bottle with the balloon. I then tried to blow up the balloon in the bottle. No matter how hard I tried, I could not blow up the balloon. It would not blow up because the air inside the bottle would push against the balloon, not allowing it to expand. Then I cut a hole in the bottom of the bottle, allowing the air to escape when I blew up the balloon.

Hope that all of you are doing well,

Page and Plant