Electricity in 5th Grade

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For our electricity science unit, we made electricity game boards. Our game boards worked by touching a wire to a brad and if you answered the question correctly a tiny light bulb would light up. This worked because we had foil on the back of the game board acting as wires for our game. We used a battery as our power source, and with wires we lit up the light bulb when the player touched the correct answer with the correct question. We decorated them in different ways with different themes. Some examples are; food, Disney, cats, video games, etc.

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Article Written By: Laura Ralston and Kayden Bott

Literacy Week

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Our literacy week and fundraiser was a huge success.  We enjoyed celebrating and promoting reading in honor of Dr. Seuss.  Meadow Brook wants to say THANK YOU for all of the participation and support during Literacy Week.  We are excited to get more books for our Leveled Library and technology programs to enhance student learning.  We are already looking forward to this event for next year!

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Sarah Ledingham

February Facebook Facts and Opinions

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Ever wonder what your Social Media page would look like if you were posting on an actual wall instead of a virtual one?  Students in Sherri's Class worked on the concept of facts and opinions in a project based learning format throughout the month of February.  Each student posted a fact on their "wall" and their opinion on a friend's wall for each major holiday and/or event throughout February.  We talked about friendship and being friends with each person in our class.  We learned facts about groundhogs, Valentine's day, Chinese New Year, and President's day.  We

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Sherri Madsen