Boston Science Museum - East Lyme Public Schools

EAST LYME MIDDLE
Mariners Monthly– October & November
Fall Fun
SCHOOL
Class Updates! By: Summer L., Ella S., Michelle S., and Ellie M.
Math: Recently, the
sixth graders have been
working on decimal operations, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and
dividing. While the fifth
graders have been adding and subtracting decimals, and working with
the powers of ten. Both
grades had a test on
Thursday, October 23rd,
on the topics mentioned
above.
Happy Fall!!!!!
OCTOBER
BIRTHDAYS
Briannah
6
Ben
7
Andrew
5
Michelle
22
We have also been working on observations, inferences, the scientific
method.
Social Studies: In Social
Studies we’ve been pretty
busy. We kicked the year
off with time-zones and
lines of latitude and longitude. Our teacher, Mrs.
Jorgensen, recently assigned the first project of
Science: In the multithe year. We are taking
age Science classes, we
notes on the three differhave a Science question
ent regions of the U.S.
that we answer everyand making an advertiseday. On Fridays, we have
ment for one of them usMystery Photo Friday,
ing programs called
which is extreme closeup pictures of items. For Movie Maker and Audacthis, the students try to
ity to record our voices
figure out what they are. and add pictures.
Language Arts: Recently
in LA, we began reading a
new book called Journey to
Jo’burg. It’s about two kids
named Naledi and Tiro,
who go to Johannesburg to
inform their mother that
their baby sister is very ill
and she needs immediate
help. Each night, we’ve
been recording evidence of
certain character traits.
Eventually, we’ll have to
understand how our character evolves throughout
the book. Some characters
may go through major
change, but others not so
much. In addition, we read
a pleasure book at home
for 25 minutes every night,
and record it in our reading log.
Boston Science Museum
On October 16, we went on
our first field trip of the year –
the Boston Science Museum!
Everybody enjoyed it very
much. The following are
some things that we saw
there:
The lightning show was a
really amazing experience for
everyone. A woman was using this special machine
called a van dour Graf generator to create indoor lightning.
Depending on how high she
turned up the machine, the
sparks would be different
sizes, and sounds of different
intensities would be heard. At
15,000 volts, the spark would
be barely visible and audible,
while at 1 million volts, it
would be extremely loud and
bright. There was also a huge
metal cage that rose up and
down where the woman was
“trapped.” We discovered even
though metal conducts electricity, she wouldn’t be harmed, as
the metal surrounded her everywhere.
The butterfly garden was also
very extraordinary ! A butterfly
garden is a greenhouse full of foliage and assorted live butterflies. So
many students had butterflies land
on them. Even Mrs. Brisbois had a
huge yellow butterfly land in her
hair!
The exhibits were especially interesting and unique in their own
ways. Seeing is Deceiving, was a
hallway of a bunch of pictures and
interactive brain games to fool
your mind. There was also an exhibit named Science in the Park.
Which showed the way that science is always surrounding us even
if we don’t realize it, at the park
and at home.
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Halloween Social
Ella S. and Editors
NOVEMBER
BIRTHDAY
Hayden
8
Finn
10
Caitlyn
12
Renee
18
Josh M
26
Lucas
27
Pearl
30
FALL
The Halloween Social
was on Friday, October
25th. Almost everybody
wore their costumes.
There were many fun activities that the DJ set up
including a costume contest and a singing dare.
The most popular game
by far was the girls versus boys mummy wrap.
The girls were victorious
FUN
in both the first game and
the rematch. Thank you
to the DJ for playing
awesome music and to
the chaperones and PTA
for setting up this fun
event. A special thank
you to the custodians for
helping us clean up.
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Pages 3 & 4 are reprinted from 2012
Fall Activities by Sarah M and Michelle S
What’s your favorite season? Is it
fall, winter, spring or summer? If yours
is fall, we have the perfect activities for
you! Fall is a thrilling season, full of
pumpkins, jack-o’-lanterns, and colorful
leaves.
Here are some ideas for you:
 carving pumpkins
 making Halloween costumes
 making pumpkin pie
½ cup white sugar, ½ cup brown
sugar, a pinch of salt, ½ teaspoon
cinnamon, 1 ½ cups milk, ½ cup
heavy cream, and 2 cups pumpkin
puree.
The steps to make it are
really simple, all you need help for
is basically the oven part.
First, preheat the oven to
450 degrees Fahrenheit.
In a bowl, mix the eggs,
Imagine how fun it would be to
milk, heavy cream, and pumpkin
make silly faces out of pumpkins – cats, puree.
monsters, ghosts, even people! This is
In another bowl, mix the
why fall is so enjoyable. All you need to two types of sugar, salt and cinnado is to go to Scott’s Orchards or grow
mon. Put the things in one bowl into
your own pumpkin. The only other
the other one. Pour in the pie crust.
things needed are knives, markers, nap- Bake in the oven for 450 degrees
kins, and possibly even a candle to light Fahrenheit for ten minutes, then deyour pumpkin up!
crease the temperature to 350 deThe best pumpkins are the Congrees, and bake for 45 minutes
necticut Field, Howden and Baby Bear. {until a knife inserted into the center
Also, pumpkins should be light colored comes out clean. Cool, and serve for
and should be pretty big. Use a marker
Thanksgiving dinner. Yum!!!
to draw your designs on first so you can
One thing we bet you love to
erase with a wet towel, or better still,
do is to celebrate Halloween. What’s
plan your design on paper first. Follow
better than making your own cosyour outlines carefully and spend a lot
tume? Here are a few easy ideas that
of time on each pumpkin. Start with a
will be perfect for your next Hallowsimple design. Your little brother and
een.
sister can decorate with markers instead.
Buy a huge (HUGE) white
Cut out the center of the pumpkin if you cloth. Put it over your head, and faswant to add a candle.
ten it with a large piece of string. Ask
Pumpkin pie is another entersomeone to cut out holes for eyes.
taining thing to make, but there can be
Walk around making ghost noises.
other kinds of pies. Pumpkin pie is
Get black and green face
just really delicious and popular.
paint and dress like the Beast. Put on
The ingredients you need are:
scary clothes too.
pumpkin pie crust, 3 eggs, 1 egg yolk,
This isn’t scary, just fun. Get
a suit and sunglasses like the rapper
Psy in Gangnam Style. Learn how to
do his crazy dance
Hunger Games lovers – Put
on some ripped clothes, boots, and
bow and arrow and other tools for
Katniss or Peeta.
As you can see there are
many fun things to do in Fall. These
are just a few. Maybe our ideas will
make you come up with more Halloween costumes or you’ll want to
learn how to make other types of
pies!
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