Diligence
We studied Diligence this month. We learned that it takes 10000 hrs to be great at any thing. Diligence is working hard until the task is done. Some of our dreams require a ton of work to make them a reality.
Mr. Lopez
Great Expectaions
We learned about Gods purpose for our lives and finding it in the midst of seeking Him with all our hearts! When we make God our greatest expectation He will always exceed our greatest expectations.
Mr. Lopez
Spring Celebration
I am really proud of these students. When they started, they didn’t think they could dance. After faithfully coming to practice on time, warming up and working hard, they really learned a lot. They even went shopping for their costumes. For the Spring Celebration, they danced to I Want To Be Right There and did a great job.
Mrs. Rosario
All good things come to an end
8th grade has learned a lot about the world. And now it’s time to prove it. Finals are coming up!
Miss Kleinschuster
Be careful what you eat
Chapter 28 centers around the treatment of the human body – that is, how we treat ourselves. Our bodies are temples for the Living God, and we shouldn’t abuse them. Obesity is now recognized as a growing and deadly trend; the flip side takes the form of eating disorders that deny any form of nutrition. Seventh grade is learning that poor food choices can lead to the development of noninfectious diseases, and so can drug abuse. Just because a drug isn’t addictive doesn’t mean it isn’t dangerous, and there are plenty of drugs that can be obtained legally at a certain age, but can still be abused. Now is the time to instill wise habits. Stay healthy and stay clean!
Miss Kleinschuster
Inertia
However, an object in motion will stay in motion – that is the law. Newton’s First Law, to be exact. Sixth grade is continuing to learn about physics and the concept of inertia. Inertia is the tendency of an object to stay in motion, or, if it was at rest, to stay at rest. Scientists of Sir Isaac Newton’s time were incorrect in their assumptions about motion. They thought it required constant force to keep something moving. It’s really that other variables come into play: gravity, friction, an object in the way, and so forth. An object’s direction or speed will only change if something acts upon it; that’s Newton’s Second Law. Interestingly, Newton may not have made his many discoveries about math and motion if he had not been escaping the break-out of a plague at his university. And what if that killer apple had never fallen on his head? That’s what got the ball rolling… so to speak.
Miss Kleinschuster
WATER WATER EVERYWHERE
Water is the universal solvent, able to break down many chemical bonds. It can also physically break something down. And that’s why a sudden rainstorm after a drought can actually be quite dangerous to soil: it can move loose earth around very, very quickly. 8th grade is studying the water cycle, the formation of rivers, and the power behind moving water. It covers 70% of the globe – and very little of it is actually drinkable. You wouldn’t think you’d need to conserve it since it’s right there in the ocean, but… what’s happening to our oceans even now?
Miss kleinschuster
OF LIFE & DEATH
How does the species – any species – continue? Why, through reproduction, of course, whether asexual or sexual. Some organisms are genetically identical to their single parent. That is not the case with humans, of course, and seventh grade is making a study of the reproductive cycle and human development.
Did you know that blood cells begin to form by the time an embryo is a month old? Before the second month is over the embryo has a heart, brain, spinal cord, limbs, muscles, nerves, fingers and toes. It can even swallow and blink and only measures sixteen millimeters.
Thanks to Adam and Eve’s failure to comply with God’s single rule, however, there’s a lot of stuff out there to give us: viruses, bacteria, any number of other pathogens. 7th grade will learn how the body is formed to protect itself from infection, and what happens if something gets past our defenses.
Miss Kleinschuster
NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT FAST? GO TO THE MOON
Sixth grade has learned why you weigh less on the Moon – and why you weigh more on Jupiter: gravity. It’s not your body that changes (that’s your mass); it’s the strength of what’s keeping you on the surface. In fact, if you climbed a mountain, you would weigh less even on Earth, because the top of the mountain is farther away from the center of the planet’s gravity.
Did you know that if you drop a feather and a hammer at the same time on the Moon, they will hit the surface at the same time? Sixth grade knows! They learned that since there is no air there, there’s nothing to make the feather float. That experiment couldn’t be performed effectively on Earth until anti-gravity chambers were invented, but Galileo Galilei, an Italian scientist from the 16th Century, did some of the initial tests to theorize that all objects fall in the same rate in a vacuum.
Miss Kleinschuster
PIMPLES ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH
Pressure builds, the cap may explode, red stuff flows… I’m talking about a volcano. 8th grade will never forget how one works, and now, neither will you. You are probably familiar with dramatic explosive eruptions, but they are actually quite rare. For instance, magma is constantly welling up at the bottom of the ocean, creating new land. There are several different types of volcanoes, and even different types of lava and the formations they make. Did you know that a single eruption can affect the entire globe? The gas, ash, and dust resulting from the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo affected the global climate!
Miss Kleinschuster