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Rockin’
Hawks
UPCOMING EVENTS
FEBRUARY
Late Start
14
President’s Day
No School
16
17
Late Start
18
UPCOMING EVENTS
MARCH
Late Start
4
5th Gr State Reading
Assesments begin
10
No School
St Patrick’s Day
13
17
5th Gr State Math
24
February/March
C-E-L-L-O
4
Valentine’s Day
5th Grade
Newsletter
By: Mrs. Wischropp
5th grade Science students
recently learned about plant
and animal cells and its
parts. To reinforce the
organelles and their specific
jobs, we put together a
“cell” made of different
items.
Below is a description of each
item and what organelle it
represented.
Square container: cell wall
We compared animal and
plant cells, as well as
discussed how the cell works
in the various body systems.
Plastic wrap: cell membrane
Yellow jello: cytoplasm
Plum: nucleus
Twizzler strand: chromosome
Green grape: choloroplast
Cinnamon candy: mitochonrida
Bubble wrap: vacuole
Assessments Begin
Some of the items were only
used on the plant cell, as the
cells are not the same.
Fun Facts
Worldwide, over
50 million roses
are given for
Valentine's Day
each year.
Amongst the
earliest
Valentine's Day
gifts were
candies. The
most common
were chocolates
in heart shaped
boxes.
Galileo was the first to see Saturn's rings in 1610.
Writing Fun with Pumpkins
By Mrs. Smith
The fifth graders in Mrs. Smith
and Mrs. McNally's English class
had fun with pumpkins in
October! The focus of the
lesson was the use of adjectives
to describe their pumpkins.
Using adjectives in their writing
is stressed to meet the 6 Trait
Writing Process. As they began
looking at the pumpkins, they
listed all of the nouns they could
describe. Then they made a list of
possibilities of adjectives across
from that noun. Next, they
formed their complete sentences
into a short descriptive paragraph.
Lastly, they edited their rough
draft and rewrote it in their best
handwriting for publication.
A drawing was made of their
pumpkin according to their
descriptions. Who knew
writing could be fun?!
Each month a new brain teaser or puzzle will be shown
here. If you are the first to correctly report the answer to
the teacher listed, you will receive an awesome prize! Put those thinking
Hiawatha
h
Middle School
caps on!
Abraham Lincoln, the
16th president of the
307 South Morrill
Hiawatha, KS 66434
Phone: 785.742.4172
Fax: 785.742.1744
Homework Hotline:
785.742.4172 after 4:30 p.m.
United States, was
born on February 12th.
If Lincoln were still alive
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Mrs. Smith: [email protected]
Mrs. Wischropp:
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www.hiawathaschools.org
in the year 2000, he
would have celebrated his191st birthday
on February 12 of that year.
In what year was Lincoln born?
If you think you know the answer, see Mrs. Tollefson. The first student to correctly
answer the question wins an awesome prize!
Luck of the Irish to ya!
Secret Message Egg
What You Need
Small bowl
Measuring cup
Alum
What to Do
Why It Works
In the bowl, dissolve one part alum
in one part vinegar. Mix well. Use
the Cotton Swab to write or draw
something on the eggshell using the
alum and vinegar solution as ink.
Let dry. Remove the eggshell from
the egg.
The vinegar (acetic acid) dissolves
the calcium carbonate in the
eggshell, allowing the alum to
permeate the shell and discolor
the egg white.
White vinegar
Cotton Swabs
What Happens
Hard-boiled egg
The alum-and-vinegar solution
dries invisible, but when the
eggshell is removed, the writing is
visible on the egg's surface (and the
egg is still edible).
Check out the color version online at http://www.hiawathaschools.org .