Monday, February 9th, 2009

Hello all,

Today was a hodge podge of activities between the three classes. In Mrs. Brewer's class we were finished presenting our group projects, however Group 4 had an excellent addition to their project, that they worked on outside of school that was AWESOME!!! The completed their evaluations and we read in our National Geographic Explorer about Gold Fever and Icebergs. We discussed how Gold is both a mixture and a solution and that is also one of our Elements, it's symbol is Au. We then stopped and the groups started an experiment that we will be completing tomorrow in class. We will measure how much mass 50 mL of water has, add a 5 mL spoon full of salt, measure it again and find out how much the mass of the salt is that we added. The students will then brainstorm ideas of how we could separate the salt out of the solution that we have created. The students also had the opportunity to read a bit about Icebergs when their group finished the experiment.

Mrs. Kuykendall's class completed presenting their Group projects today and then they too did their evaluations. Group three and Group five went. The students read Gold Fever as well. After they were finished we started the same experiment as Mrs. Brewer's class, that we will also be completing tomorrow.

Mrs. Echols' class completed their posters and all five groups presented today, it was a busy day!! The students also completed their EVALUATIONS of themselves, their group members and the other groups. After rotating classes at the end of the day, the students read Gold Fever as well. We will do the entire experiment tomorrow and play "catch up" a little bit!