Student Post: Week of Sept 9-13

      Last week Room 144 learned all sorts of facts including egyptian numerals.
  Egyptian code: Staff = 1 Heelbone = 10 Scroll = 100 Lotus flower = 1,000 Bent finger = 10,000 Tadpole = 100,000 Astonished Person = 1,000,000

      That is the egyptian code.
 We also learned about the water cycle, the 1st step is called collection, that's when the water all collects together ; the 2nd step is evaporation, this is when the water gains so much energy from the sun's heat that it turns into a vapor and rises to the sky. The 3rd step is condensation, this is when the water vapor molecules latch onto a dust particle because the dust particle is cold. Soon other water vapor molecules latch on and it becomes heavy. That's when the 4th step comes in, precipitation, this is when the dust particle becomes so heavy and it falls as sleet, snow, hail or rain.
      That is the water cycle or Hydrological cycle.
We also learned about area. Area is the inside of the perimeter of a shape. We used shape tiles and then actual measuring items including 1x1, 2x2 and 3x3.
We made shape posters by tracing a shape and labeling things we noticed on them. We worked in groups and even made a nice background.
Did you know that 10 centimeters are in a decimeter? Or that 10 decimeters are in a meter?
Classroom 144 Learned all this during 9/8/13 - 9/13/13.

                                                       By Brendan Hays