The second graders got to write their own blogs posts with their table today. Check out all the fascinating facts they have learned about rocks, minerals, and soil and respond to their questions in the comments! The green table is writing about weathering. Weathering is when rocks break down and don't move. When water flows through the cracks and freezes rocks break down and stay in the same place. Our question is- Is wind a part of weathering? The orange table is writing about erosion. Erosion is when rocks move while it breaks down to pieces and wind, water, and ice break down the rock. Our question is have you seen erosion? The red table is writing about minerals. Minerals are pure. Minerals are made out of one thing. Minerals can be different colors and different shapes. Our questions is what kind of minerals are there in the world?
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The second graders got to write their own blogs posts with their table today. Check out all the fascinating facts they have learned about rocks, minerals, and soil and respond to their questions in the comments! The Green TableThe green table is writing about weathering. Ice breaks rocks into tiny pieces without moving the rock. Ice wedging is a type of weathering that can break a rock. Our question is what do you think weathering is? The Red TableThe red table is writing about minerals. Minerals are pure things that can do different things like writing and can be used to make jewelry and can be different colors and shapes. Our question is where do minerals come from? The Purple TableThe purple table is writing about rocks. Rocks are sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous. Some rocks are soft, hard, and rough. Sedimentary rocks are all the underground stuff. Our question is did you know that igneous rocks come from volcanoes? The Yellow TableThe yellow table is writing about soil. Soil is made out of clay, sand, and humus. Humus is made out of twigs, branches, and logs. Our question is how can you tell what soil is made of? The Orange TableThe orange table is writing about erosion. Wind, ice, and water are part of erosion and erosion is when wind, ice, and water move a rock and little by little its parts break. Our question is what happens to a rock after erosion?
I learned that weathering is when ice, wind, rain, lighting, and water makes rocks break down and going into little pieces. -Kyra Erosion can move rock pieces and break down rocks from water. -Alex A. /Julius Soil is made up of humus, sand, and dry clay. -Samantha When ice goes into a rock, it grows so much that the rock can't hold it anymore so it breaks. - Elijah H. /Amoor What is your favorite rock? Why are rocks important? We learned that insects must have 3 body parts- a head, abdomen, and thorax, 6 legs, 2 antenna, and a hard exoskeleton -Pepperdine A cricket's life cycle is it's born in an egg then turns into a nymph then goes to an adult. -Kerrisa My favorite part was when I saw a real life nymph (thanks Theo’s dad!) and saw it shed it’s skin. -Julius and Micquel My favorite part was watching a cricket hatch. -Amoor My favorite part was when I saw a baby cricket. -Jessica What insects have you seen? Why do they have to have 6 legs? Let us know in the comments section! When you leave bread for a long time it gets moldy and you can't eat it anymore. Sometimes mold makes bread green and different colors. Our fresh bread had the most mold on it...yucky. -Jasmine When you have a bottle with yeast and sugar and you put a ballon on top of it and leave it for a while it will be a big balloon! -Sophia I learned that the white bread had a little mold on it. -Robert My favorite part was when the elephant toothpaste was coming up and went out of the bottle and exploded. -ALL OF DUKE Have you seen moldy bread? Look up elephant toothpaste and see why all the scholars liked it! First we mixed sugar water and yeast in the soda bottle. -Dylan C. Then we put the balloon on the top.- Skylar Then the yeast ate the sugar and it started burping gas.- Okiyo, Faizha, and Lexa The yeast started to rise.- Rhyen-Wilo The balloon inflated.- Jasir We discovered the yeast is alive because it moves and it eats just like people!- Dylan G. and Adriana First we took white bread, wheat bread, and bakery bread and they did not have mold.- Imani
Mold is green and it eats bread.- Christ The mold grows on the white bread and likes to eat it.- Barakah and Lexa The mold made the bakery bread have a little mold and the wheat bread had no mold.- Jaidan You have to wait a long time for mold. -Aaralyn St. Francis is wondering why does the yeast eat the sugar water? If you know, answer our question in the comments section below! I learned that you can make bread -Averi/ Damone I learned that we eat bread -Mikalya We made elephant toothpaste! -Josiah We saw moldy bread in the classroom. It looked dirty, blue and black - Najir/John YEAST IS ALIVE!!!!!! -Summer We saw the yeast eats sugar and grow and learned that yeast makes our bread rise! -Brianna My favorite paart was when the elephant toothpaste popped up. -Jaurnay My favorite part was seeing the mold! -Tahmel The Science Club decided to create a "BrainPop Jr." style video to teach the rest of the 2nd grade about composting. Watch it and leave us your comments! You can dye fabric or use it to suck up water.- Grant
When we suck up water we call that absorb.- Jasir We use fabric to make shirts, pants, and skirts.- O'kiyo, Skylar, and Dhani Cotton is good at absorbing water.- Luke Nylon is easier to get clean because it has big holes for the water to get through.- Lexa Leave us an answer in the comments: What is your favorite kind of fabric? We learned about our 5 senses- sense of sight, sense of touch, sense of taste, sense of hearing, and sense of smell. The other day we tasted hot sauce and I didn’t like it ,it was hot! -Brianna We got to color what was sour, what tasted good, or what tasted bitter, or sweet. -Janiya, Luna, Tahmel We tasted lemon and it tasted sour and we got to use our sense of touch and we got to color. -Morgan We use our eyes to see, we use our ears to hear, we use our hands to touch, we use our tongue to taste, and our nose to smell. -Ainsley and John We learned sign language. People who can’t hear use sign language to communicate. We learned how to sign I love you. Did you use your five senses today? |
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