Hi All,
I hope your holiday and new year was fantastic. It's a time for new things and fresh starts, so in the 6th grade we've changed topics from hydrology to astronomy. It's going be a blast (especially the rockets)!
The students have already begun learning about motion and forces like gravity and all of Newton's laws that accompany them. Feel free to quiz them about inertia and Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation--6th graders love to talk about how everything (and everyone!) is attracted to everything (and everyone!) else through the force of gravity!
With astronomy come trips to the Luetkemeyer Planetarium over in the Lower School. We get to play with the telescopes, build space stations, and even launch some rockets. If the students get as excited as I am about looking at the stars, we may even throw a "star party" after school one evening. I am a telescope amateur, so any and all assistance would be appreciated. Let me know if you have a telescope at home you'd be willing to bring out to Calvert and we'll order some pizzas and warm up hot chocolate and let the kids check out what's happening out there in the universe. The sooner the better; as the year progresses it will start to get light early again and we'll have to bump the party back to later in the evening.
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