Weekly Update 10/2/19

      This week we started Inktober in Mr. Brown's class. We're drawing all types of stuff, from apples to zebras. We're also doing circle, were we answer questions and we don't get interrupted (sometimes). In circle we discussed what super power we want, and what we would sacrifice to have that power.

Math Class               oct. 2        

In math we have been working on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers.  When you don’t finish  something in class, it’s usually going to be homework. 

Here is a key that you may or may not already have in your notes: 

+(×)+=+ 

+(×)-(=)- 

-(×)-(=)+ 

Shakespeare:

We are learning the song “Surfin’ Safari” and practicing the beginning and end poses .

LA in Mr. Browns class 10.2.2019 

This week in Mr. Browns class we have been busy with poetry. We started off the week with Haiku’s and Tanka’s, and are now doing concrete poems. We have also started INKTOBER, where we try to draw every day to a prompt. So far, the prompts have been Slice, Ring and Mindless. Last week on Friday, Ms. Savage came to sub, and we did something called Blackout Poetry, where we each took a page from a book or newspaper, and artistically scribbled out everything except the words we wanted for the actual poem. It is the perfect combination of art and poetry! 

Science and Stuff Nobody Really Knows  10/2/19 

Mixtures… how do we separate them? Do we SMASH them? Do we just puuuuuuulllllllllll them apart? 

If you don’t know anything about this topic then read the rest of this! 

Mixtures 

 Did you know that milk may seem like a singular molecule, but really it is a mix of several molecules like…sugar, water, protein and fat molecules(unless your drinking soy, goat, etc.). 

Blood is another mixture! It’s made of plasma(the liquid part of blood) and the rest is the solid part of blood. Plasma has a property that allows it to stay liquid with room temperature. 

They pull blood apart by using something called centrifuges. The machine spins really fast. Then at the end the solid blood parts are at the bottom. The plasma stays at the top. 

Here is a diagram: P.S. read the poetry article. 

    GLASS 

G Plasma L 

A Plasma S 

S Plasma G 

G Plasma L 

A Plasma S 

S Solid      G 

L Blood     A 

S Parts      S 

   GLASS  

When scientists find really old food etc. and they want to spell it they usually use something called gas chromatography.