November 13, 2016

Hello 5/6 Families!

Monday is a Super Moon!  Your homework is to go out and look at the Super Moon!(see the article below)

Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2016 is the last day to make pledges for our FunRun if you want to be entered in the Principal for the day drawing.  I'm grateful for this fundraising event.  PTO steps in and helps pay for things that I purchase strictly for the classroom.  

I'm asking every student to donate $1 for the Fun Run.  I have extra forms in my classroom.  I hope you will consider this worthy cause!

Friday, November 18th is our FUN RUN.  Every student will receive a pedometer to track their steps.  5/6 will be running 12:30 to 1:30.  There are special incentives for 5-8 grades to earn a free snow cone if 75% of the students make a donation to our Fun Run.  Who doesn't love a snow cone?  Please, on behalf of your children and teachers, consider donating!

Our Hockey event on Wednesday Nov. 9th was FUN.  Thank you Coyotes for teaching us a thing or two about Hockey!

Sparky Ambassadors meets on Monday, November 13 at 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm.

School Holiday - November 23 - 25.  Enjoy the time off with your families and friends.

SCIENCE CAMP - Please continue making payments toward Science Camp.  If you haven't paid anything and you are planning on your child attending, please contact Mrs. Biggs.  It is an awesome camp for kids, parents, and teachers.

NEEDS:

pencil top erasers

balloons - 12-14 inches when inflated

Enjoy the article below on the Super Moon!

Yours in science,

Mrs. Biggs

SUPERMOON

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An Extraordinary Sight

The supermoon will look especially big because it's so close to Earth at the moment it reaches its fullest point. Share this sight with someone special, because we won't see a supermoon this close until 2034.

About the Supermoon

From NASA

NASA/Bill Ingalls

The moon is a familiar sight in our sky, brightening dark nights and reminding us of space exploration, past and present. But the upcoming supermoon—on Monday, Nov. 14—will be especially ‘super’ since it’s the closest full moon to Earth since 1948. We won’t see another supermoon like this until 2034.

The moon’s orbit around the Earth is slightly elliptical, so sometimes the moon is closer and sometimes it’s farther away. When the moon is full as it makes its closest pass to Earth it is known as a supermoon. At perigree—the point at which the moon is closest to Earth—the moon can be as much as 14 percent closer to Earth than at apogee, when the moon is farthest from our planet. The full moon appears that much larger in diameter and 30 percent brighter. The biggest and brightest moon for observers in the United States will be on Monday morning just before dawn.