222 in Action

This is our little theme song for goodbye:

So long, farewell
To all our little friends
Au revoir, goodbye to you… (and you and you!)
Even though we might not know you,
So looooooooong!

We really hate love to go… (or some of us say: We really hate love to go!)

The school year’s ending and we’re so depressed. Actually, not really. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye! We will see you all next year when we come back to school, but this site is finished forever.

If you want to visit a cool science site, go to churchillscience.edublogs.org.

Edited to add:
Final Scattergories score:
Lisa: 1
Kids: 1

And just to point out – Lisa won by 4 points in one round, but the kids beat her by over 20 points in another!

Not only did the shuttle deliver a new lab and some personnel to the space station, it also had a replacement part that the astronauts used to fix the space station’s bathroom.

Build your wild self HERE: http://buildyourwildself.com/

222 kids! If you would like your wild self to appear on this site, save the picture to Student Share so Lisa can add it.

This is for Eva’s locker… It’s that fungus from Planet Earth. Most fungi are decomposers – they break down dead material. This kind of fungus is a little different. First it kills its prey, THEN breaks down its dead body. Each kind of fungus has a certain bug that it eats. They do not hurt people.

Edited to add: I found an Awesome Fungus Video!

Space Shuttle Launch – May 31st, 2008

The shuttle will arrive at the International Space Station tomorrow, to deliver equipment and people.

Last night, we landed on Mars! The Phoenix robot landed near its North Pole. It will dig into the soil and learn about the water ice.

We have been talking about what can live in space or on other planets. Think about what lives on our own planet, deep underground and in the ocean. In some ways, going to the North Pole of Mars is like going to Antarctica. What could we find there?

Why is it so hard to land on Mars? This video explains:

More Mars videos! Phoenix Mission Video Page

Food Chain Game

We played this in class and got it mostly right. The hard ones were when there were decomposers, like fungi or bacteria.

Producer, Consumer or Decomposer?

This is the 2nd game we played in class today. We had to decide if each living thing was a producer, consumer or decomposer. We are going to play more games in class about these three big words next time!

And now for the gross part! We watched a short clip from Planet Earth that shows decomposers at work. (The part that we watched starts about 5 minutes into this You Tube video.)

Continued here:

This may be Lisa’s favorite question on the wall so far.

Lisa recommends the Brain Arcade Game on SparkTop.org!

Also… remind me to tell you about the time I tried to learn to draw!

Here are two more super questions.

Another way to think about this one: There are germs around you all the time. There are even germs inside your body. But you only get sick SOME of the time, from SOME of those germs. Why?

Ever since this question went up on the wall, SO many kids have looked at it and said, “Yeah! Why ARE yawns contagious???”

Sharks do not attack people very often. Sometimes when they do, it is because the person was on a surfboard and looked like another kind of animal in the water.

This is a super question. We have been talking about how animals have adaptations that help them survive. What are fins and tails for? Why is it an adaptation to have them?

It might help you to think about it this way: When you go snorkeling or scuba diving, why do you wear flippers?

And in a related question…