Friday, December 9, 2011

Chemistry: Periodic Table of Elements...


Didn't you enjoy our Chemistry activity with Dr Goto and the Chem Club?  Here's the optional extra credit assignment: Create a sentence (a new one! Mrs D former students) using only letters from the periodic table. It should make sense and be at 6th grade GATEr level. 

go above and beyond......Here's an additional optional assignment. Take one of the elements in your sentence and do a bit of researdh to learn more about.....be sure you can explain it in intelligent kid words.

Please use the comment box below to display your creative brilliance.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Shakespearean Three Pigs


I really enjoy picturing little pigs saying "Harken!" or "Haste."  "Unbar this entrance with haste, we beseech thee!" or "Nay it shall not be..."
Phrases like: An exhale of gale proportions, domicile number 2, ...and the alliteration about the 2nd pig.
The language makes the fairy tale sound much more important. A lot of it sounds like a Monty Python movie.

Another part that made me laugh? the American pig, with a far more limited vocab...but a stronger house.