Parent meeting

Dear Parents and Guardians,

 

      We would love for you to join us for a short planning session for our Roman Holiday on Thursday December 12th directly after school.  We need parents to lead crafts, games and contribute food. The Holiday celebration will be after the Winter Break and at a date to be determined. Planning, attending and contributing counts toward your volunteer hours.  If you can not attend the planning meeting, please let us know how you would like to help. This is a very special day for our students and parent help is essential.  It’s guaranteed to be a memorable event!

 

Thanks

Ms. Wetzel

 

Science assessment dates!!

I am pushing back the science assessment to Dec 2nd for Ms. Whalen's class and Dec 3rd for Ms. Wetzel's class.

Sorry for the confusion!!
Ms. Whalen

Upcoming science test

Monday, November 25^th (Ms. Whalen’s)

or Tuesday November 26^th (Ms. Wetzel’s)

The parts of the eye will  be tested. Students need to study from their eye map.

Know these definitions:

- Spectrum: all the colors (ROYGBIV) that come together to make up white light

- Prism: a transparent object that is used to separate white light into the spectrum of colors.

- Refract: to bend

- Reflect: to bounce back

- Transparent: You can see clearly through it and light can pass through it. (A window, eye glass lens, glass, water.)

- Translucent: You can not see clearly through it, you can see shadows of objects. Light can pass through it. (Most colored glass or glass with a design, fluorescent light covers, some shades, gauzy curtains).

- Opaque: You can not see through it. No light can pass through it. (Person, car, tree, wall, desk, chair.)

- Convex: curved outward- Larger view, used in stores to see around corners. Used in microscopes.

- Concave: curved inward- smaller view, objects appear upside down. Used in telescopes.

 

Know this information:

- Light travels in a straight line.

- Light travels in waves.

- Light is energy.

-We can only see things when light hits an object and bounces off it. The light from the object then travels through our pupils which creates an upside-down image on our retina. The image then travels on the optic nerve to the brain, where it is turned right side up again.

- Dark objects absorb more light than light colored objects. This is why dark clothing is hotter in the summer. It is collecting more energy from the light.

-The best object to reflect something would be a flat mirror. It creates an exact reflection, only backwards.

-Light is bending and slowed down when it is refracted.

-A transparent object, such as water or a lens, is used to refract light.

-When light is blocked by an opaque object, a shadow of the object is formed.

-White light is made up of a spectrum of colors (all the colors of the rainbow).

- A prism or a drop of water can be used to break up white light into a spectrum.

- ROY G BIV- Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet