June 6

Highlights:

• As our final lesson on stability, we learned about catamaran boats. This type of boat features two parallel hulls of equal size! The catamaran boats are wider than boats with a keel. This wider stance in the water helps to balance more weight and keep it very stable in the water.  
• We got the opportunity to make our own catamaran boats in groups of 3 or 4. 
• Here are some of photos and commentary from the students:

<"So, basically all we did for attaching the popsicle sticks (so can I get the thing and show it?... yes) so we put the popsicle stick like that [demonstrates] and put the elastic band over the popsicle stick like that [demonstrated with bottle and stick] and then we did that again and again! So it was a little bit of a pattern!" "And ours held ... umm..150 pennies and a stapler!" >

<"So we took styrofoam plates to make a catamaran, and then we put pennies there and there [plates]!"> 

... <"It total it held 187 pennies!">

<This one, we put 2 plastic jars on the bottom, and we used some straws for the net, and we used those sticks for a triangle shape to hold it down.">

<"One side tipped a little bit over in the water and this one could hold 100 pennies!">

<"We took the styrofoam plates, 4 milk cartons, and 1 small cream carton. We stuck the smaller carton to the larger cartons and we took 2 other large cartons for the bottom. We taped 2 straws on the sides. Then we taped it all together.>

<This was from room 1!.>

<"The tape did not work in our design because it fell apart when the water touched it!">

<"Team work makes the dream work!">

Reminders:

1. Special Helper for next Monday is Inaya (favorite sport or hobby)

2. No school tomorrow 

3. Mrs. Wilkens' guided reading group is to read up to ch. 14 in Charlotte's Web by Monday, June 10th.
4. Mrs. Yoon will be away on Monday, so Mrs. Bigelow will be our guest teacher for the day.
5. Please bring back all library books for Monday - we might be able to win the Ice Cream Party from the library (the class that brings back all library books by Monday wins the party).

Have a great long weekend!