Fifth-Grade Family Science a Huge Success!

It was great seeing so many fifth-graders at Family Science Day on November 22nd. Students enjoyed many science investigations and made terrific observations. Kudos to Robert Kosinski and Juan Villacis from Ms. Bradley's class for creating great sculptures from trash! We also have some budding scientific illustrators at P.S. 230--so many of your bird illustrations were marvelous. Kids also got a chance to read tree cookies and find out the age of a tree and the conditions under which the tree grew. Students wracked their brains trying to solve toothpick puzzles and built some pretty tall skyscrapers using clay and toothpicks. The tallest skyscraper was built by Cassidy McAllister. Sabiha Afroz from Ms. Shapiro's class guessed correctly that there were 350 pencils in the Estimation Jar. Way to go Sabiha!

Whew! Parent-Teacher Conferences are over. It was so nice meeting so many of my students' parents. My apologies to anyone who tried to see me but couldn't because all the slots had been filled. Please feel free to email me at oogly2@yahoo.com if you still wish to speak to me.