Thank you for sending in the ingredients for our Friendship Snack.  The students bagged them up this morning and put a little note on them.  I took them to the Outreach Center this afternoon.  Each year the Center looks forward to receiving the snacks to put with the Thanksgiving dinner packages as a way of sending cheer to those in need.

The students played scientists today as they recorded their observations while experimenting with magnets.  At this station the students found things that were attracted to magnets.

Here we discovered that magnets can be different strengths and it wasn't always the biggest magnet that was the strongest.

This student is making a paper clip stand on end even when the magnet is not touching the clip!  We learned that magnets have a magnetic field.

The students made chains of paper clips at the ends (poles) of a bar magnet to show that magnets are strongest at the poles.

We magnetized a spoon by rubbing it with a strong magnet.

At every station we recorded our observations.

I couldn't take down the Thanksgiving decorations without showing you how they looked.  Here are the ripped paper cornucopias and the leaves and acorns with a blessing on each one.

The turkey you did at home were fabulous and so very unique!  I hope you enjoyed doing them.

Happy Thanksgiving!