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Playing Lava Monster tag, Wyatt found a great strategy to remain lava-free!! In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! This week, we first finished our Moon Mission team projects. We finalized what our mission plans were, the name and emblem of our mission and we designed astronaut suits for our peeps. Each team presented them. We then traveled 193 million miles up to visit our closest star…THE SUN! We learned that it is HOT, HOT, HOT (12,000 degrees at its core) and GINORMOUS! (if we filled it up 1.3 million earths could fit inside). We saw where we’re located in our […]

A twirling, swirling playground dance performance! In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! “Houston…we have lift-off!” Alphas explored our Moon this week. We learned that this amazing satellite inspired myths and legends around the globe, and we got to know a few of them! We learned a hypothesis about how some scientists believe the Moon was formed and how far away it is from Earth. We explored how falling objects might displace matter to see if it could shed some light on those circular pits we see on the face of the Moon. Our table team challenge was to create a

When the worlds of Legos and hair clips merge!!! In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! This week we took a tour of the higher layers of our atmosphere discovering why it starts cold in the stratosphere and gets warmer the higher up we go because of all the UV light being captured in the Ozone layer. We talked about how earth’s relationship with the sun gives us life on earth, but how the ozone layer truly makes life possible by blocking the harmful rays from entering our Troposphere. We also discussed how our actions here on earth (cars, aerosols, and

In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! We asked ourselves…what are clouds and where does WIND come from? We found out that the power of the sun and temperature has everything to do with how clouds and wind form. We revisited our knowledge about the 3 different states of water we learned about earlier in the year. We thought, again, about the water cycle and how water when heated transforms into vapor and moves upward it bonds together to form clouds. We conducted an experiment to see if we could make a cloud…and we did! Often we love to look at

WELCOME TO Quarter 4 Alphas!!!! We came back from Spring break to discover that… Larry made a MESS of our traps – EVEN though he escaped, we made it tough enough that he lost a boot! AND he left a surprise for us in an empty Lucky Charms box… gold coins! Turns out they were the chocolate kind…he’s such a trickster!! (We had to figure out how many there were and how we could fairly divide them up!) In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! A shot of the troposphere from outer space… This week we talked about the troposphere –