Stations of the Cross

Our class will be walking the Stations of the Cross tomorrow morning during first block. We have made crosses to each carry as we pray and reflect on this important Holy Easter event.

Candling our eggs!

More pictures from our eggs candling! Thanks Mrs. McCleary! See our special Mars Chickens Tab above for more information and our log.

Math Test

We will be having a unit math test for geometry----triangles, angles, and co-ordinate grids. A study guide will come home after Easter with the information to review and the test date. We were hoping to do it this week, but with the four day week AND practice for Stations of the Cross, attending the actual Stations of the Cross, Luv2Groove Dance workshops and our Farmer guest to candle our eggs----things are a bit busy this week and we want to review!

Cool News

Elon Musk (SpaceX) sends his Tesla convertible car into orbit!

Two teenagers from Toronto sent their Lego man to space! Check it out!

A Canadian from Kingston, Ontario went into space today! He will land soon on the International Space Station!

Eggciting Science/Language/Math

WOW!! Our class is imagining (but with real chickens) that we are the first scientists on Mars. We have started a colony and are beginning to terraform the planet. The first thing we need to do to be sustainable is to grow organisms, especially ones that are sources of food. Plants, cows, chickens... all will be needed on Mars. We are trying to use an incubator to hatch the first ever space chickens! First we need to be completely familiar with the structure of an egg and know the development of the embryo inside it. As scientists, we will monitor the growth of the embryo using a light to shine through the egg to check on the blood vessels within. We will be taking observational notes, creating Google slideshows about chicken development, and how incubators work.

Ask us about what happens weekly! Our scientists hope to know as much as we can by the end of this week!

We will post weekly on this blog (with pictures) about the development of our embryos. Keep your fingers crossed that we can hatch our chickens!! Then we can (start to imagine) surviving in space!!

Trying to hatch and study quails in space: