Boney School

Today in science we made paper skeleton to help study for our big skeleton test. The kids cut out the different bone in your body. Some interesting fact about your skeletal system are that your skull is called your cranium and your collarbone is called your clavicle. A way to remember your bones is to sing a song that goes to the tune head shoulders knees and toes. In Mrs.Morris's science class she was able to get a real live dead skeleton from Mr.Rollin's homeroom in the high school. Did you know that and infant has 270 bones but some fuse together and an adult human has 206. We hope to learn more about our skeletal system. See you back with more info next Friday!!!!!!

Student Studies (Week 1)

We’re going to do something new each week. It’s called Student Studies. Each week we will interview a 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th grader.

6^th

Holden Reichert was born in Van Wert, Ohio. His favorite color is orange. He’s on team Storm. He likes Ohio State. His favorite teacher is Mrs. Gemmer. His best friend is Gavin Flickenger. For fun he likes to go outside and his favorite sport to play is football.

 

7^th

Zac Tomlinson was born in Van Wert, Ohio. His favorite color is blue and he is on team Stars. He like the Buckeyes. His favorite teacher is Mrs. Gemmer and his best friend is Lennon Bartley. He loves to play basketball and to sleep. He loves to watch baseball.

 

 

8^th

Julia Springer was born in Van Wert, Ohio. She loves the color purple. She is on team Impact. She likes the Ohio State Buckeyes. Her favorite teacher is Mr. McElroy. Her best friend is Cassidy Meyers. She loves to run. Her favorite sport is Cross Country. 

Rube Goldberg Machines

By: Stephanie Geething and Brianna DeAmicis.

The 7^th graders had to build a Rube Goldburg Machine for GTT (Gateway to Tech). A Rube Goldburg machine is a long chain of events that completes a series of simple events that in the end completes a simple task. They learned about the six types of simple machines. They had to use at least five of the simple machines to build their machine.

Inclined plane: an inclined is a inclined flat surface that allows you to exert your input force over a long distance.

Wedge: a wedge is a device that is thick at one end and tapers to a thin edge at the other end.

Screws: a screw is an inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder.

Levers: pulling a nail from a board with a claw of a hammer

Wheel (and axle): Ex screw driver (handle=wheel and shaft=axel)

A wheel & axle is a simple machine made of 2 simple circular or cylindrical objects that are fastened together and rotate a common axel.

Pulley: Ex: raising and lowering a school flag each day. A pulley is a grooved rope or a cable wrapped around it. When you pull the rope you change the amount & direct of your input force.

7th Grade Stars Team

LANGUAGE ARTS- Dystopian Literature: We are reading novels about dystopian societies. These are some of the books we are reading: The Maze Runner, The Last Book in The Universe, Matched, and The Giver. We are making a brochure about the place in our book and trying to make it like a place you would want to visit.

SCIENCE-  We are learning about Energy and students are designing investigations to study energy transfer. We are also learning about experimental design.

SOCIAL STUDIES- We are finishing learning about the fall of the Roman Empire and the causes of it failing, including Germanic tribes attacking. We are preparing for Byzantine Empire.

MATH-We are studying variables and patterns. We did jumping jacks to help us figure out how to make graphs. We are also studying tables and graphs. gr

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