October 2017 – SarahWrites

Wicked weather on 5 year anniversity of Hurricane Sandy yesterday

smarolda25 on October 30, 2017November 1, 2017

Sunday, October 29th was the Five year anniversity of Superstorm Sandy. When Hurricane Sandy happened, castastrophic damage was caused in the north east and record amounts of water from the storm surged inland causing record amounts of destruction. At least 147 people died as the storm battered Northeast, Canada and Carribean. It was the second costed Hurricane in US history.

Yesterdays storm, though not a hurricane, brought damaging winds and flooding rain. Many roads were closed due to either flooding or downed trees. Even roads in our area were closed causing massive delays on the way to Heathcote School.

As the sun began to show today, we remember how our lives were disrupted and how thankful we are to have our to have Hurrcane Sandy a distant, yet close, memory. We will never forget the affects during the storm 5 years ago and we look forward to the future.

HOME of the BRAVE

smarolda25 on October 26, 2017October 26, 2017

(Book written by Katherine Applegate.)

Gol is a cow, but Katherine Applegate (author of Home of The Brave) also uses her as a symbol. How does Gol represent Kek’s past, present, and possibly his future?

Gol represents the past because, Gol means family. Kek’s family is gone, Gol also represents Kek’s entire old life. How he used to work with cows and cattle.

Gol represents the present because, Gol is very old. And is very lonely as well,

Gol represents the future possibly because, Kek takes Gol to a better place (the zoo) and Kek could possibly go to a better place in the future. They also represent the possible future of the farm. How its going to be sold soon, Gol will most likely die soon as well.

Rocketry launch #1.

smarolda25 on October 24, 2017

We had finished our first launch, though it was fun we have also collected data! According to our data, J.E.X.L was the rocket that went highest, (57.5m). Our group, LASA got the height of 38.5m, etc. According to the graph the classes average was 41.5m. We used rulers to help us make an accurate graph to determine our group’s average and the classes average. We used clinometers to measure how high the rocket went. We use graphs to make a final height because there are two people on each side of the field both using clinometers. We used a trundle wheel to see how far apart the two clinometer users were for graphing reasons.

Some struggles/Things we will do next time

smarolda25 on October 23, 2017

On Friday, we were finishing up building our rockets!! Our cone came in, It seemed too long, though, and it would touch the wings (Which were also too long). Though we found a soulution, to cut a bottle and attach it to the top working as an extension.

We also got an idea for the extension, our teacher allowed us to put a smurf inside the extension to seem like some astronaunt. Not only did we successfully fix our problems, we turned it into something great.

Learning to use tools (Clinometer and Trundlewheel)

smarolda25 on October 19, 2017

Today we learned how to use a Clinometer and a Trundlewheel! A Clinometer is used to measure. It can measure moving objects, and ones that don’t move too. We will be using a Clinometer to measure our rockets when we launch. A Trundlewheel is aswell a measuring tool, it is used in an easy way to find the rough distance from one place to another.

In the picture, there is a chart from earlier where we tested the tools out. We measured a moving object (a soccer ball being thrown up into the air) with a Clinometer. On the other hand, we also used a Trundlewheel to measure on how far apart the two sidewalks were.

Preparing & building for rocketry

smarolda25 on October 17, 2017

In Rocketry we are now preparing & building. Our rocket will be built to work well against gravity and the launcher.(The launcher is in the photo). We had to build carefully to not mess up the first design of the rocket which is now completed. Our bottle is coated with 1 layer of a shiny silver tape as the carboard wings attached are wrapped in different colors. (We don’t have a picture of it, sadly.) But my group and I are very happy with how it came out though,

I also feel like it will be okay at the first launching.

A idea I had before was the rocket to be more round, the wings had a curve and not a point. The rocket did come out very much the same, instead of curves and such it was pointy. But I believe that will not effect it too much, And soon we’ll be launching!

Planning & designing for Rocketry

smarolda25 on October 17, 2017October 17, 2017

In Rocketry we are planning and designing, Planning on how its gonna go down and desigining on how it will look.

This is our inspiration board where we plan our ideas. We use this board for inspiration to make changes to our designs and plans. Without it, we wouldn’t have many examples of charts, facts and ideas about motion. We use charts to show how bottle rockets work and to see what works best to construct the perfect rocket. We also use it to experiment on what works and what doesn’t. Discovery is the word. We need ideas to try new things. If things don’t change, they don’t get worse. True, but it won’t get better either and we could always go back to another design and learn about what went wrong and why. Learning from our mistakes is very important so we don’t repeat them. Facts about motion are also very useful! Learning about the laws of motion means our rocket can work together with Earth’s gravity. Using this information we can learn how the rocket will react when we launch it.