two practices till showtime!!!!

today we practiced some of the singing and dancing of the musical and learned our speaking parts we also played some chess I won to one of our students and we did some rhyme times today was an awsome day of gifted

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Today we practiced the musical. A lot!!! It's called Top 40!!! It has songs like Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu, Material Girl, and Twist and Shout. It's a bunch of fun!! We worked on dance moves and places on the risers. We will get our lines soon also. The musical will be January 22nd and 23rd at 7:00pm (22nd) and 9:30 and again at 10:15 (23rd). It will be awesome!!! Be sure to come! No seriously it's too awesome to miss!!!!! Ladies and gentlemen,it's Top 40!

Deep Space Lab

Today we learn about deep space and that our sun was a dying star and when the sun dies it eats itself and becomes a black hole and a black hole sucks up everything (even light!!!) and turns it into corks (which is the smallest thing known to man kind) 2 black holes would be a wormhole and if suck into it you would throuh it at a trilleouth of a secound and come out the other side!
also we learn how to make a 4 dimensional cube out of marshmallows and tooth picks called a tesseract. Tesseracts are 8 celled cubes also known as octachorons. that's mostly what was enteresting about gifted today!!!!!!!!!!!!
by:joshua

bridge to technology

So last Thursday, we showed our principal,Ms Phillips how to do photostory. Photostory is a program that lets you make slide shows using photos, images, cool fonts, narrate, and add special effects. We made ours about bridges suspensions,beams and archs it was loads of fun.! And we got our parts for the musical too! Ms Phillips didnt even write anything down cause she was learning. We can compose music on photstory which is my favorite part. We also made some suspension bridges out of of books and strings and paper. You would not believe how many books they were able to hold. Our record was about 35 books, a bunch of army figurines, and cubes. It was awesome!!!!!!!Ally

Bridge Brigade!

Over the past few weeks, we have been working on a "bridges" unit.  We've studied the arch bridge, beam bridge, and suspension bridge.  The forces that allow these bridges to function successfully are tension and compression.  When something is in compression, it is being "pushed" so to speak, and when something is in tension it is being "pulled." These forces often act together on a bridge.  There are over half a million bridges in the US and we rely on them every day to cross rivers, lakes, streams, railroad tracks and more.  We have had a lot of fun constructing these bridges ourselves in order to understand how they work.  We've acted out arches, pushing and pulling to demonstrate tension and compression, we've built trusses (triangular framed) bridges, and plan to try our hand at building suspension bridges next week.  Can you think of any examples of bridges that you see regularly or have seen in the past? Are they arches, beams, or suspension bridges?  They are all amazing structures and interesting to learn about! Want to learn more?  Stay tuned, we'll be putting together slideshows of our pictures and discoveries on our blog for all to see next week.

-Mrs. Zawis

fun fab day in gifted

today in gifted we got to do a mythbusters experiment on yawning. we where wondering if yawning was contagious. so like in a mythbusters episode. we had two groups a control group who just did something with the experimental kids and none of us experimental people yawned and observed what hapened. then in the other group, the experimental group did the same but 1 of us yawned and observed we found that yawning probly is not contagious because we tested a few students from a class and one of us yawned to see if anyone else yawned. then i the control group we did not yawn to see if they just yawned because they were bored. you to can try it!

-Megan

Open House

Thank you to all who attended our open house last week. In case you were unable to attend, please enjoy the slide show!