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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

 A wonderful Thanksgiving celebration at Seabury! We took our gratitude pumpkins which we have been working on all month. We talked about what we are all grateful for! Even the middle school was there! We ate delicious food which we all had made. Ladybugs and Bumblebees made chocolate cookie acorns. We shared food and friendship together. Happy Thanksgiving!






Friday, November 18, 2016

 
 An exciting culminating experience today for our study of transportation. We took the bus to the Light Rail station in downtown Tacoma today, then took the Light Rail to the end stop, near our middle school. We walked to the donut shop where we all got to choose a delicious donut, then walked over to visit the middle school. We finished our walk by heading back to the station, boarding the Light Rail on the return trip and then back to school on the bus!




Wednesday, November 16, 2016

 In our latest STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) project students worked to design a roadway from multiple colors of tape along which a toy car could drive. What surface would give the car the best chance of movement? They then engineered how to attach magnets to little cars in a way that they could use other magnets to either attract or repel the cars. Which worked better for car motion, attract or repel? What effect did the tape have on the function of the magnet? Finally, they worked to move their magnet powered cars along the roadway structures they had created.




 We learned about several harvest festivals from different countries; Samhain from Ireland, Halloween in the United States, and Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in Mexico. These pictures show their sugar skull designs on paper and on the cookies we made.



Friday, November 4, 2016

 We had a wonderful celebration last Thursday. We played bingo, laced spiderwebs, and threw beanbags in the windows of a haunted house. We also had delicious snacks and a wonderful parade and picture! Thanks so much to Ladybug and Bumblebee parents, especially Jessica, Patti and Kirsty!






 We worked with our pumpkins. We measured height and circumference in standard and non-standard units. We weighed the pumpkins by weighing ourselves first, then ourselves with the pumpkins in our hands, then subtracting to discover the weight of the pumpkin itself. We hypothesized whether pumpkins would sink or float and then tried it out in a tub of water. Finally we recorded our findings. We discovered the average pumpkin weighed 7-8 pounds.





Thursday, November 3, 2016

 At the pumpkin farm we experienced a real working farm and got to participate in chores. We harvested apples in the orchard and learned about the tiny, bitter, wild apples they grow in order to pollinate the orchard. We harvested carrots and tasted fennel. We learned that fennel is a main ingredient in some candy. We fed goats and chickens, went on a hay ride, and finally picked out our favorite pumpkins. Despite the rainy weather we had lunch at the farm in a greenhouse that was growing tomatoes. It was a great day!