Happy Thanksgiving!

The Ladybugs celebrated Thanksgiving with the rest of Seabury on Tuesday.  We decorated, reflected on what we are thankful for, made our contribution for the feast and enjoyed the company of our older schoolmates.

Magnets, Light Rail and Donuts

This week's challenge:  design a road with masking tape,

find a way to attach a magnet to your car,

Use another magnet to either attract or repel your car to make it move on your road.

We're starting a unit on transportation,

today we took a school bus to the light rail,

rode it to the end of the line,

picked up donuts,

found some special people,

and visited the Seabury Middle School.

We had lots of opportunities today on our visit to downtown Tacoma to observe many different forms of transportation.  The light rail may have been our favorite.  We're wondering what else we can get a ride on!

Echolocation and Sound Waves

This week we've been talking about bats.  One of the things that really caught the kids'
attention is echolocation.  We did an experiment with the Sphinx class exploring sound waves.

We used paper cups and string to demonstrate how sound waves worked. 

We roasted pumpkins, 3 different flavors and then did a taste test.
Sweet beat out salty and spicy. 

In math we are working on symmetry.

We've been pretty successful!

The Alchemist class joined us for a little more exploration of symmetry.