Static Electricity

Today we had fun in science with static electricity experiments. Ask your student what he/she would have to do to end up with balloons on the ceiling!

Pollution and the Chesapeake Bay

My apologies for the delay! On the 21st of November, Mrs. Kaufmann's class and our class gave presentations to several people who work in various positions at central office, including the director of elementary education and the science lead for the county. They were impressed! 

Each group showed a demonstration about how pollution affects the Chesapeake Bay and offered a proposal for how we can help the environment/watershed here at school. The groups did a great job explaining their thinking and offering ideas for improvement here at the school. Ask your child how he/she did!

Learning about hot and cold currents from one of Mrs. Kaufmann's groups

One group's demonstration about soil and forest buffers

How pollution affects watersheds

Different polluting factors build on one another

Lots of different variables affect the Bay

One group held a school-wide contest to design new light switch covers

Here are a few early entries for the contest

The light switch cover contest came to an end on Tuesday, November 26th. The group who held the contest will be reviewing entries (there were A LOT!) and we will have a winner soon! Stay tuned!