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New Cherry Crest Tile Project

The G5 students have created some awesome tiles to be featured at the new Cherry Crest! Check out some samples from our class!

Motivation: Teach Me How to Study & The Test Goes On

Brought to you by the teachers at Denny International  Middle School, Seattle Washington.

 

 

This goes to show that you can do anything... if you really want to!

Two high school kids (17 years old) send a lego man into space!

 

Teens Send Lego Man into Space

ABC News

by Lauren Sher

A Lego man went on one wild ride when two Canadian teenagers attached the toy to a homemade weather balloon, complete with video cams, and launched it into the stratosphere.

Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, two 17-year-olds from outside Toronto, designed and built a helium weather balloon for the Lego man‘s joyride,  according to the Toronto Star. They mounted four different cameras to the contraption to record it all, and sent the toy into the atmosphere, where it climbed to an estimated 80,000 feet.

The tiny toy, holding an even tinier Canadian flag, cleared the Earth’s atmosphere during the 97-minute journey and captured astonishing footage of the Earth from above.

“We didn’t really believe we could do it until we did,” Ho told the Star, which first reported on the teens’ project Wednesday.

The humble experiment began four months ago and was completely homespun, according to the Star. On a budget of $500, Ho and Muhammad scoured Craigslist for cameras, sewed their own balloon parachute at Muhammad’s mother’s sewing machine, bought the necessary pieces online, and then assembled it all, using a Styrofoam box as the base.

The teens were able to recover the Lego man and cameras, which landed approximately 75 miles from the Toronto park where they launched it, thanks to a cell phone’s GPS app they affixed to the device.

“It shows a tremendous degree of resourcefulness,” University of Toronto Astrophysics professor Dr. Michael Reid told the Star. “For two 17-year-olds to accomplish this on their own is pretty impressive.”

 

Calling all G5 All Stars!! Doodle 4 Google Contest!

Doodle 4 Google, is a contest where  students in the United States use their artistic talents to think big and redesign Google’s homepage logo for millions to see. This year Google ask students to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, "If I could travel in time, I'd visit…" One lucky student artist will see their artwork appear on the Google homepage and take home some cool prizes--and as a special bonus, the winning artwork will appear on a limited edition of Crayola's iconic 64 box!

Click here to learn more on how to enter!

*Taken from the Google website

 

Schwa Part Deux

G5 Life T.V. Colonial Boston 1765

This episode features a couple students introducing their Colonial Characters from their story path in Boston 1765. The students in the background are also introducing themselves to the Boston community. The students have established their setting of the story, their characters, family, and their jobs.  Soon, students will be researching what life was like in the colonies and presenting powerpoints to the class.  I can't wait to see their final presentations!!

 

 

Schwa! View it from the comfort of home! :)

 

ODLE MIDDLE SCHOOL INFORMATION NIGHT

NOTE:  due to snow, the Odle Showcase is now on Wednesday, January 25^th!

You are cordially invited to the Odle Middle School SHOWCASE on Wednesday January 25^th from 6:30 to 8:15!  Odle Showcase is an evening where you and your student can learn about all the amazing programs at Odle and meet Odle’s terrific teachers!  Showcase is for ALL families – General Education, Special Education and Prism.  Everyone is welcome!

This year, you and your student will have the option of going on a guided tour and learning about all our programs OR doing your own self-guided visitation.  You might choose the guided tour if this is your first child in middle school or if you are unfamiliar with Odle.  You might choose the self-guided visitation if you have had children already go through middle school or if you are already familiar with Odle. 

Again, we invite all families to the Odle Showcase on Wednesday January 25^th from 6:30 to 8:15!

 

Sincerely,

 

Eric McDowell, Principal

 

No School Friday!

See you all Monday?  :)

Still coming down over here!

I'm almost exactly at 10 inches of snow!_