November
The Solar System
Essential question: What can we learn about objects in space?
Logan:  A comet is a piece of ice that will fly around in space.
Patrick:  Asteroids ares rocks in space.
Marvin:  The rings around Saturn and Uranus are made out of ice and dust.
Erik:  The planets from the sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. (My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas)
Danielle:  Astronauts need space suits because there is no oxygen to breath in space.
Essential question:  What have scientists learned about space?
Emmalee:  There is gravity on earth, there is no gravity on the moon.
Dominique:  The Earth is tipped on its axis and it spins around once a day.
Cory:  The earth goes around the sun once every 365 days, that is once a year.
Nakeya:  Scientists learned that the sun is not a planet, it is a star.
Leeann:  Scientists have learned that there is no other life in space as far as we know.
Ciara:  Scientists use telescopes to study about space.
Kelcie:  If you stand on Pluto the sun would look like a bright star.
Essential question:  How can we learn about space?
Macy:  You can go in a rocket and see craters on the moon.
Samantha:  You can study about space in books.
Cameron:  You can use computers to learn about space.
Robert:  Jupiter has a big red spot that is a storm that never stops.
 
 
Author of the month: 
Bill Cosby

Ms. Millage's Solar System Website
The Death of the Sun
Solar System Simulator
Earth, Sun, and Moon
Challenging the Space Frontier

In math this month we learned about subtraction with regrouping.

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