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It is the Lord who created the stars. -Amos 5:8
After chapel today (lead by an 8th grader), we filled in our Star notes. Then we watched a video by Louie Giglio about how big our galaxy is and how small we are and how God made it all. We have read many of Louie Giglio’s short devotionals throughout the year so it was fun to get to see/hear him talk. Then we talked about how light pollution is a lot like “the world’s noise” it causes us to not be able to see ourselves well in the scope of Gods great universe. We get too focused on self and make much of ourselves instead of making much of God.
we talked a little about how next week will not be a zodiac talk in regards to how to predict your mood/life base on planet alignment. We will focus on how God put the stars In their place to help us determine our place in time and space. We should look to Him who Created and holds the future and trust Him and not the creation. I’m passionate about this because I believed heavily in horoscope, palm reading and even ouija boards when I was their age. God specifically told me to stop and I obeyed him (for once). I said all this to them while wearing a Harry Potter lanyard. We talked about how it’s okay to enjoy things that may seem dark, but to always keep in mind that it’s Fiction and God is Fact/faith.
We are going to start talking about constellations soon. I believe I read on the syllabus that there is a constellation project/paper that they are going to be working on. If we have any extra time in class, I will let them look at some books and flashcards, and maybe even get the computers out to do some research.
For the fifth grade science fair on Monday, they can bring their projects and put them in my room Monday morning. If there’s anything to breakable valuable or tempting, it would be great if the parent could just keep that until 2pm and bring it into the castle then for set up. I talked with the math teacher and she’s going to come over and watch my sixth graders while I take the fifth graders upstairs to start setting up around 2 PM on Monday. We were cleaned up and out by 4:15 last Monday.
Wow!
In class we were able to do our chocolate melting lab and calculations. Fifth grade was able to do a creative project with black paper and chalk for their galaxy identification.
In the beginning…
We did the notes for week 1 (universe), we will do the lab on Monday. We were on chapel time and I wanted to have plenty of time to calculate the speed of light.
Sleep working on those Science Fair projects!
Science Fair!!
Womp womp
I will grade the test tomorrow and send out emails to parents of kiddos that need to retake on Wednesday during recess. I talked with a few parents about their kids doing the test Tuesday at home because of traveling to witness the eclipse. We took the test straight from the book.
Side note, have yall been to Baxter Gardens in Halls?! It’s free and only open during the month of April for Dogwood Arts festival. They have a huge sun dial at the top and a few statues of some of the guys we have talked about recently.
We will start our new unit Wednesday and don’t forget about your science Fair projects!!
they can bring them in Monday morning and leave them in my room till end of day or you can bring them to pick up and we can set them up then. A few parents have volunteered to set up tables and help set up projects at the end of the school day.
Science Fair questions
Water filtration
Cornelius effect
Acid rain
Rock formation
Biospheres
Solar power
Solar oven
Air/water convection
Weather/ clouds
Space debris clean up