Happy New Year To All
This is IOWA standardize test week.
6th grade is working on the Space and Rocketry Module. They started to build the rockets last week and should finish it this week. They can bring it home and spray paint it for extra credit when we finish working on it in class. If they spray paint it, spray paint works best because the fins and nosecone are made of plastic and not all paints work well on plastic.
They are required to put some of the stickers on it as part of the project. The stickers are included in the kit.
I will be posting the due date as soon as we get closer to finishing the rocket in class.
You can see pictures from the rockets we flew last trimester on my web page:
http://www.ccsd66.org/Rodda/Web%20Page%208-1-05%20BB.htm7th Grade:They are now working on their second module. We finished the first module last week (computer animation). We worked on that module as an entire class all working on the same module. Now, they are all working on different modules.
Generally, it takes 7
th graders about ten days to finish a module.
8th Grade:They are on day six of their second module. The 8
th graders typically take about eight days on a module. We anticipate they will
finish the latter part of this week, however because of the IOWA tests that may change.