On February 26th, Mr. Sigler traveled to the capitol building in Jefferson City and this is some of what he saw.

Are spelling words for this week are:

Spelling Words Week 22

1.    general

2.    governor

3.    governors

4.    government

5.    one

6.    won

7.    winner

8.    winners

Here is SW Missouri, our lunar eclipse observations Wednesday night were a bust.   An ice storm moved in, obscured the sky,  and iced us over.  Here is a summary of what we missed.

Thanks Mr. Eclipse for the great eclipse animation.

I wrote a previous post about lunar eclipses. You will get to see on Wednesday, February 20th the best total lunar eclipse since 2004. It will start around 7:45 pm and reach its peak around 9:00 pm. Be sure to watch!

All our word wall spelling words to far this year is

January Portable Word Wall(pdf)

This week’s words are

Week 21

1. by
2. buy
3. bye
4. didn’t
5. doesn’t
6. happiness
7. unhappiness

Our spelling words for this week are:

Spelling Words Week 20

1.    addresses

2.    crashes

3.    employees

4.    healthy

5.    rainy

Did you know that the moon doesn’t disappear during a lunar eclipse? Instead, it turns red. Here is an explanation of why.

Mr. Eclipse also has this great multiple exposure of a lunar eclipse over Maui.

Thanks to Mr. Eclipse for this great resource on lunar and solar eclipses.

We are doing more than just learning Science.  We are doing Science.  We used lots of hands-on materials and tools to experience, explore, observe, and investigate science.  We felt like real scientist!

We have been studying a unit on Solar Systems. We made models to explain what causes day and night Can you pick out which model just explains day and night without any extras? We have also been studying the moon and its phases. We’ll have more on that later.

Our list of spelling words this week is:

Week 19