Exciting Times!

These are exciting times at Graham School! I am REALLY looking forward to the Harvest Festival! I really think people will like the Duck Pond game. You win a prize EVERY TIME YOU PLAY!! I have the prizes at my house and everything else I need for the game.

All I need now are a couple of 5th or 6th graders to help me out at the booth (parents/adults can help too!).

I have already had several kids turn in donations with the FREE PLAY coupon!!! How exciting!!!

Everyone come play the Duck Pond game at the Harvest Festival and help support the Science Room!

P.S. Betsy's water is GREEN. (Again.)

Help the science room get a new carpet!

I submitted a proposal on DonorsChoose.org. Check it out!

Duck Pond Booth at the Harvest Festival

The Science Room will be having a "Duck Pond" booth at the Harvest Festival!! "Duck Ponds" are great because you get a prize every time you play. I will give out coupons this coming week for a free play. All you have to do is donate a box of Kleenex or a bottle of hand sanitizer or a roll of paper towels or a box of pencils and you will get a free play at the Science Room Duck Pond booth at the Harvest Festival on Friday, November 3rd.

Support the Science Room and play the Duck Pond game at the Harvest Festival!!

a big day for the animals!

Yesterday was the walk-a-thon. How fun!! Thank you to Alisha, Esther, Berenice, Yalitza, Isabel, DJ, Jesus and Zack for helping sell science juice and watching the animals during the walk-a-thon.

We had the millipede and hermit crabs out during different times. Young, preschool-aged children seemed to LOVE the hermit crabs. It was so great seeing kids so interested and excited about the strange creatures they had never seen before!

Thank you to everyone who purchased science juice! You are helping raise money that will go towards taking care of the animals. Everyone loves Betsy, Harry, Ron and Hermione (and even the giant millipede!) so it is important that we take care of them.

Taking care of them is expensive though! On Thursday I bought another Fluval 4plus filter for Betsy's tank. The day after John, Robbie and Luis helped clean the tank and change the water, it was still GREEN! I will go into school tomorrow. Hopefully the water won't be as green anymore. I also had to get another heating lamp light bulb. The other one burned out. These bulbs are important because they make heat for Betsy to bask under AND they are full-spectrum lights which is important for Betsy's physical and psychological health.

Thank you for such a fun walk-a-thon! Wasn't the music great!?!?! I am so proud of all my students who walked so much and worked so much to earn money for our school.

all animals present and accounted for

All the hermit crabs are in the crabitat. For awhile I couldn't find Hermione. And then, Ron was MIA for a few days. Now, all three of them are in the crabitat. I wonder where they were when they disappeared...

Betsy's water is green... still. I don't know why.

The millipede has been a bit more active lately. I haven't given her calcium lately. I will try to remember to do so soon.

Many kids have been helping in the science room after school! Thank you everyone!

Donate to the Science Room!

I put the science room on a website called Adopt-A-Classroom! Now people can go online and donate money to the science room. I want to raise money to buy Betsy a new tank and filter supplies for the classroom. www.adoptaclassroom.org

Science Room Wish List

The Science Room would appreciate any of the following items:
- hand sanitizer
- pencils
- staplers
- paper towels
- plastic cups
- small plastic bags (sandwich size)
- liquid soap
- disinfecting wipes (i.e. Clorox wipes)
- wooden clothes pins (with spring)
- pencil erasers

Thank you!!

Thank you!

Thank you to Jesus and Steven for helping after school today!!! They sorted rocks that the 6th graders have been studying and got a bit disorganized!

5th Grade Elements Project

I heard Ms. Amarante's class will be doing a research project on the elements. Unfortunately, there aren't really any books in the science room to help you with this. Here are some websites that seem pretty good though:

http://www.chemicalelements.com/

Try this one!!: http://periodic.lanl.gov/default.htm

http://www.chem4kids.com/files/elem_intro.html

Hermione found!?!

I went into the classroom today and found two hermit crabs sitting on the sponge. One was definitely Harry and the other one was in Hermione's shell. Does that mean Hermione was in there the whole time? What is going on? I did not see Ron in the crabitat though so now HE is missing... What are those crazy crabs doing?

The millipede has been eating well lately. She stays under her log most of the time but in the morning I do see her crawling around.

Betsy is doing well, I supposed. I am trying to feed her more. Her water is a bit green. Maybe there will be some students available to help change the water on Friday.

A big THANK YOU the following students for helping in the science room on Friday afternoon: Alisha, Diana, Monserrat, Emily, Robbie, John, Luis, Berenice, Isabel, and others whose name I have left off the list by accident.