Exploring NASA, and measuring the solar panels of the ISS

A morning of Literature Circles and then Mr. Blount visits to talk about PongSat Launch

Congratulations Pleiades Club Annual Poetry Contest Winners-- Hayden and Eilowny

 Sunday, April 26, 2015 at the 1912 Center, Hayden and Eilowny will have their original poetry read out loud during the annual celebration by the Pleiades Club to acknowledge the creativity of students from around the area. 

Event starts at 3 p.m. Way to go!!! Join us in you can!

To see home history of Idaho's Oldest Women's Organization, check out this link--Pleiades Article from way back in the day!! By Vera White

Spring has been up in the Air!! Pictures in next post...

The 4th grade got to do their first real experiment when they sent up their PongSats in the weather balloon with the NearSpace Engineering students from Moscow High School.

Each did an experiment ( a control and one in the ping pong ball) and wrote up the parts of an experiment in a formal format. They wrote about the materials, procedure, hypothesis, analysis, conclusion.They did a sketch with a side and top view of an opened PongSat before the launch. We are in the final editing of their work as they are learning that the writing process is part of all academic areas.

It was soooooooooooooooooooooooooo exciting-- can't say that enough!!

More pictures will be uploaded soon.On

On Tuesday when Mr. Blount came to talk to the class about the launch and brought in the module that held the PongSats and gave some basic facts about the launch.
The balloon made it to over 78,000 feet, the temps were -60 F, and experienced the full spectrum of the electromagnetic field.

 For more on NearSpace Engineering-- go to:   http://www.nearspaceengineering.org/


And, this is super exciting news. The kids will get to present their findings at the 22nd University of Idaho Engineering Expo on Friday, May 1.