Spring Time & The Changing Earth!

 Exciting News: Our Westridge Ballroom team has done an amazing job this year (especially considering this is our first year having a team)!

Two of our very own classmates, Rebekah and Andrew, are on the team. They have practiced so much and I was so proud to see them showcase their talent.

Here is Andrew getting ready to start!

Since we met our class goal in February, which was to have everyone in the Homework Club by the end of the month, we won a breakfast party! The faculty made us delicious pancakes with fruit and sausage. Wow!

I also promised the All-Stars a treat for everyone who was in the HW club by the end of Term 3. They definitely earned their ice cream sandwiches!

We are loving everything there is to learn about the changing of the Earth's surface. In this picture we are demonstrating how fold mountains are formed. The earth's plates push into each other, causing folds and uplift in the plates. 

We also demonstrated fault block mountains with linguine noodles. When you push both ends toward each other they break and one part of the noodle submerges below the other. 

Here are students working hard at creating their personal timeline. We did this to be able to compare our own timeline to the Earth's timeline.

Here we created Earth's timeline on a string and noticed that most of the monumental events (like amphibians, plants and humans first being on the earth) all happened relatively close to each other!

 Afterwards, we drew this depiction of the Earth's timeline on the back of our personal timeline. One student had a great realization. He said, "Our personal timeline would be like the size of an atom on the Earth's timeline!"

We also had the privilege to watch a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream put on by CAS. They did a fantastic job!

Have a wonderful and safe Spring Break!