Playing card bridges

I worked on my Arch bridge at home with my sister Coua. It took us about an hour. The hardest part was folding the bottom pieces, it took the longest to do. I enjoyed building the bridge at home. - Jaia
Harrison worked hard on his Arch Bridge at home, but is too shy to take a normal photo holding it. His bridge looks great! He worked on it with both his mother & father. It took him about 45 minutes to complete, easy stuff he says. He liked building the project at home. - Mr. Lundquist on behalf of Harrison
My Dad and I were busy working on our Truss Bridge. There are many steps to put it together, but it's still lots of fun. It took us about two days to build it, my dad is a busy guy. The first day we folded all the pieces, the second put it all together. It was a fun project to build. -Clara
Here I am at home, building my truss bridge with my two brothers Ricky and Josh. I am trying to stick tacks through the playing card. That was hard , I couldn't get the tacks through the hole because the tacks were too small. -Daynesha
I made my bridge using tape to keep it all together. My dad helped me build it, it took us two days to finish it. We made a Truss bridge. It wasn't the same as the others because they had tacks and we used tape to put it together. - Tyler
This picture is of me and my mom, we built the bridge together. We had to use 2 decks of cards, even though the instructions said only one deck. It took a little while to build it, and quite a bit tricky at the end. The hardest part was fastening the brackets. -Dave

Zoo Field Trip

Aren't these bears huge? They're Kodiak Grizzly bears. These bears were saved from Alaska when they were cubs. There were 3 bears here at the zoo. Their names are Kenai, Haines, and Sadie. At one part the little guy in this picture was holding a stick like a guitar. It was so cute.
This part of the trip is when we went to the Discovery Bay. Destiny here was trying to pet a shark. Here we got to see fish, sting rays, and more. We also got to touch star fish. And learned about sharks and fishes species.
Here is Jaia and Taylor modeling their bags that Target donated. These bags came with journals to write stuff we learned about and colored pencils to draw awesome pictures of animals. We would like to say a Thank-you to Target.
These are the Amur Tigers we saw on our trip. They were so beautiful laying down. We got to learn about their species. Did you know that there is also Amur Leopards? The reason they both have Amur in the beginning of their name is because they come from a place in Korea called Amur.
In theses picture is Vianna's mom, Vianna ,and Clara. In the background from Ms. Potvien's classroom is Grace and Nicola. When we took this picture we were outside by the river having lunch. We got to see the wonderful blue waters.
These are Mexican Grey wolves. They are endangered in the wilderness, but have a safe haven at the zoo.
Destiny, Erika, David, Tyler, Mahommed and Dave had fun cramming themselves into the picture and crawling all over the statue of the Mexican Gray Wolf. Overall it was great trip, and we were excited to spend the day at the zoo.

Written by Destiny & Clara
Photos by Daynesha

Investigations - Math Time

Our math Group is working on Cubic Volume. This is one group working hard, don't mind Clara who was begging to put on the cube over her head as an "air tank". She's crazy, but a hard worker.
This group of four boys and one girl are actually working pretty well and pretty fast! It took about ten minutes of neat and hard work. Go Tyler, Harrison, Chue, Ricardo and Erika!
Look at this amazing focusing group! I mean it is only a cubic volume video
online, but Wow!!!!! I bet they're pretty quiet too! The 5th graders from Mrs. Glory's class join our class for 5th grade math everyday, and the fourth graders go to Mrs. Glory's..
Look at this group! Everyone is working all except Ian! Look at that focus on Tyler's face! (Tyler top right) Even Chue is completely focused... at least for this picture he is. Ian on the other hand, well he's just Ian.
This group of girls are working with tiles so hard they don't notice we're there! Cool!
Who knocked it down? Huh huh huh? Uh oh well at least the other kind students are helping! Whoever knocked the tile box should at least say thanks! I mean the person who knocked it over would be there forever without these students helping. Messes happen all the time, but we are quick to clean them up.

Written by Emilie & Daynesha
Photos by Mr. Lundquist

Journey to the Falls

We went on our first field trip of the year, a journey down the river on the Minneapolis Queen river boat. We learned all about the locks and dams that are on the river. We also learned about the history of Mississippi river and how Minneapolis use to have a booming logging industry. We also learned about the early men who traveled up and down the river, and what types of supplies and boats they used. We worked in the journals that we made in class to take notes and sketch the landscape.
After lunch, which we ate at Boom Island, we then went beneath the Stone Arch Bridge and dug for artifacts from the old sawmills that use to be located right on the river. You can see from the pictures that we found lots of interesting artifacts, and had a great time digging these items up. We had a great time on our first field trip of the year, and are looking forward to many more.

Trouble over Truss Bridges

This week we tried to make Truss bridges with Krazy glue. The Krazy glue wasn't really amazing at all, it was lousy. Erika, Fabiana, Taylor & Vianna are frustrated with the lousy glue.
Kegan, Larry & Tyler had success despite the lousy glue. They found that when they put on the glue, and squeezed really hard, it actually worked. They all seem to be working well together on building their bridge.
The girls had trouble making the bridges, they didn't want to get their hands too dirty with the sticky glue, or break a nail. Just joking, all the girls did much better than most of the boys. You should have seen Adan's hands, there was more glue on his hands than on the bridges.
Divon can't believe how the glue was so sticky. It was like laffy taffy. It was suppose to be smooth and easy to spread, but we must have gotten some old glue, because it was the complete opposite of that.
What kind of glue would you recommend that we use? We've tried Krazy glue, glue sticks and Elmers school glue, and they don't work. We are bound, determined & eager to build these bridges, can you give us any advice?

Written by the Students
Photos by Mr. Lundquist

Buildings & Bridges

We built paper cup towers to see that you need a strong base in order to build high. Here's the fifth graders trying to build higher than anyone else.
The 4th graders are trying to build a pyramid with all the cups they had. Carlos was trying to knock the cups down, but we didn't let him get away with it.
We used laptops to learn more about Bridges online. To check out what we did, click on the word bridges. We searched this website and learned a whole bunch of new facts about bridges all around the world. Nora and Taylor made good teammates.
Of course, the window ledge was where William, Mahommed, Jaia, Daynesha, Danielle & Emyla wanted to work. Or maybe they just wanted to watch the little kids play outside at recess.
David is working alone, and he seems to be studying really hard. Emilie & Clara are working together - are they really looking at bridge's or are they just checking their e-mails?

Written by Nora & Destiny
Photos by Adan & Mr. Lundquist

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