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BOAST Kids Newsletter January - March 1998 |
This newsletter contains articles about the following subjects:
 | Magnets |
| Interviews |
| Watershed |
| Writing About Books |
| The Rain Forest |
| Poems & Stories |
| Other Articles |
We learned about how the poles of magnets push and pull away from each other then we went back to Burch Village and taught the other little children what we learned about and how magnets work.
We learned about magnets and how they are fun. They stick to things like tables that are made out of metal. I like to talk to the other kids at the Burch Village Center about magnets.
We learned about magnets and how they push each other away from the north and north poles. Then we came back to Burch Village and taught the other kids about magnets.
Magnets are fun to play with and some people like magnets because they can hang up important papers and other things. I like magnets.
Magnets were fun. I like the way they push away from each other. Magnets are cool.
I like the way me and my friends learned about magnets.
Needles can be picked up by magnets. Magnets have north and south poles.
Magnets have poles of north and south. Magnets like metal. Magnets can be made of metal.
I taught Ellen C. how the north and south poles of magnets stick together. North and north do not stick together.
The north poles of magnets will not stick together. The north and south poles will go together because the north sticks to the south.
We made a compass at BOAST out of a dish, needle, straw, magnet and water. We put different stars on the straw to show the difference between the north and south poles.
If you put a magnet near the compass and the star goes to the magnet, one is north and one is south. If they move away, they are both north.
A magnet will stick on a chalkboard, fan, and chair. Magnets stick to things that are made of metal.
A magnet can stick on the chair, chalkboard, fan, table leg and paper towel holder.
Magnets have north and south poles. Magnets stick to metal. A magnet will not stick to water because water is not made of metal. I learned about magnets from Gabriel.
At BOAST I learned that magnets are attracted to metal. I learned that magnets have poles.
I learned that the poles of a magnet are named the North Pole and the South Pole. I learned that magnets are cool.
The first thing I learned about
magnets is that they attach to
each other. Magnets are cool.
We made a compass with
magnets. A speaker is an
example of something that is
magnetic.
Kenneth Interviews LucilleKenneth - Grade 2Lucille - University VolunteerKenneth: Where do you go to
school?
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Lucille Interviews KennethKenneth - Grade 2Lucille - University VolunteerLucille: Where do you go to
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We saw a big old ugly fish. We also saw a clam and woodpecker. There was a cat who washed his food before he ate it because he thought it was a raccoon. We looked at pictures of the river too. We printed up a picture of a clam. While we were looking at pictures we learned how the chairs in the computer lab work.
The water of the Fraser River runs fast and well. Because of the fault line the water runs through mountains and in forests. A fault line is a very deep crack in the rock. A long time ago a different river ran through the same place and the crack got bigger. Glaciers also ran along the fault line. The glaciers left behind rocks and dirt that they carried. The Fraser River has worn the dirt and rocks away.
We learned about poop, or feces. There are 2,500,000 toilets in the Fraser watershed. There is a lot of sewage in the water. If the water is dirty enough, it makes the fish sick. If you eat sick fish you will get a disease. People should clean the watershed.
We learned that headwater is where the river starts. Then comes the upper basin. After that the river flows through the dry lands. In the canyon, water goes between the mountains. After the estuary, the river ends at the ocean
The sturgeon is a fish that can live to be 135 years old. The sturgeon wants the river to be clean.
A sheep is a plant eater. Plant eaters are called herbivores. The sheep live in California. Some sheep are big horn sheep. They have a hard time finding food.
Snakes eat rats and other living things. Coyotes eat rats too. Meat eaters eat other kinds of animals. Meat eaters are called carnivores. Snakes and coyotes are carnivores. They eat mice and little things.
White tail deer have four stomachs and two toes. Cougars are the biggest cats in North America. They eat deer on the river. The water in the canyon is only six degrees. The snakes eat mice and other rodents.
In Canada a long time ago the people had to use rivers and clean creeks to get water with wooden buckets. Now the government is in charge of the water. They make sure it's clean. Some of the pollution kills some of the fishes. That's why we have to clean our environment, so the fishes will live longer.
I learned that cows have four stomachs. Milk comes from dairy cows. Beef comes from beef cows. Beef cattle live along the Fraser River.
I read a book called Kick, Pass and Run by Leonard Kessler. It was about a rabbit, a duck, a cat, a dog, an owl and a frog. I liked that all the characters in the book were animals.
I read Astronomy. I like to study Venus.
I read Ten Apples Up On Top by Theo Lesieg. The main people were the tiger, the dog, and the lion. I liked it when they all had apples on top of their heads.
I read We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. It was about people who were going on a bear hunt. I liked the book because they were going on a bear hunt.
I read We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen. It was about a family. I liked it when the people were running through the grass.
I read Go, Dog, Go! by P.D. Eastman. There was a big dog and a little dog in it. I liked that there were two dogs on a boat in the water. There was one over the water and one under the water.
I read a book called Even Steven and Odd Todd. It was by Kathryn Cristaldi and it was about Even Steven and Odd Todd. I liked this book because there was a little math in it and I love math.
I read a book called Kick, Pass and Run. It was by Leonard Kessler.
It starred a rabbit, a duck, a cat, a dog, an owl and a frog. I liked the part where they played football.
I read a book called We're Going on a Bear Hunt. It was written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. It was about the people who were going on a bear hunt. I liked the book because they were going on a bear hunt.
I learned that the Amazon gets nine feet of rain every year. In South America and central Africa indigenous people fish and hunt.
The snake is my favorite rain forest animal because snakes are heavy, long and they swallow anything whole. Carnivorous plants are cool.
The rain forest plants are used for medicine and food. I like the rain forest because it rains a lot there.
I found out that the forests are found in the middle of the Earth. There are people who live in the rain forest. The Pygmies are one group of people that live in the rain forest. They eat animals and plants.
I learned many interesting facts about the rain forest from the Internet. The rain forest gets 80 inches of rain each year. It is located in a thin band around the center of the earth. The Pygmies and the Yamomo live in the rain forest. I like the saltwater crocodile because he is bigger than the sea in the picture. I also like the Venus fly trap because it's a plant, is alive and it eats flies. I thought that the Venus fly trap was interesting. The rain forest plants are used for medicine and food. People can learn to plant crops in a way that will not hurt the rain forest.
I found all the different kinds of animals in the rain forest very interesting. Rain forests must get at least 80 inches of rain each year. The forest is found in a thin band at the center of the earth.
People live in the rain forest. They are hunter- gatherers such as Yanomamo and Pygmies. They eat pigs and berries.
I like saltwater crocodiles. They are big, very mean and ugly.
I think the most interesting plant in the rain forest is the Venus fly trap because it eats bugs and raw meat, but I'm afraid it will eat my hand off.
Rain forests are important because the plants and trees are used to make medicine.
You can save the rain forest by planting crops that will not destroy it.
I learned that the rain forest is around the equator and it gets about 80 inches of rain each year. Yanomamo and Pygmies people who are hunter-gatherers and they eat animals and honey.
We all think the Venus fly trap is interesting because it eats flies.
The rain forest is important because we get medicines from the plants that live there. The rain forest also gives us cocoa, chocolate and pineapple. In Costa Rica there is a college that teaches students how to plant corps that don't destroy the forests.
My favorite rain forest animal is the electric eel because it is long and can knock a person senseless.
In the rain forest project, I learned that the rain forest gets 80 inches of rain a year. Rain forests are found around the center of the earth. The people who live there are hunter- gatherers who eat plants and animals. The jaguar is my favorite rain forest animal because it eats meat and is the third largest cat. Rafflesia is a plant that lives in the rain forest and grows three feet wide. In the rain forest medicines are found. The rain forest has plants that eat flies.
I learned that the rain forest gets about 80 inches of rain per year. Rain forests are found in a band around the center of the earth. People live in the forest. They are the Huli, Wigmen, and Yanmano men who can run up trees.
The piranha is my favorite rain forest animal. It likes the smell of blood and its teeth are so sharp that it can eat a 100 pound animal in one minute! The jaguar and ants are my favorite rain forest animals too.
I also like the Venus Fly Trap because it is a plant that can eat flies.
Rain forests are important because a lot of medicines come from the plants. The Garcinia punctata plant cures diarrhea. The rain forest helps people.
No Way!A Story by James, Grade 2"It's time to get up," said
mommy. "Eggs for breakfast," said daddy. I ate eggs for breakfast. "I want to play," I said. "I want to sit up front," I said.
"I want cookies," I said. I love my grandma. |
All the Colors of the Worldby MariaGrade 4There is yellow, There is green,
There is purple,
There is another color
There is orange,
There is blue,
There is red,
There is brown,
There is black,
All these colors are the colors of
All these colors are the colors of
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Ellen drove us to the university. When we got there, we sat down and watched Ellen. She was telling us what we were going to do that night. After that, I got to work with Heather. She helped me put together the race car. We put the cardboard, batteries, wires, wheels and straws together to make the race car. Then we took the car into the hallway to see if it would go. The race car went super fast! It went all the way down the stairs and bumped its head! We had a lot of fun.
The space car we made was really cool because it works just like the Land Rover that went to Mars to take pictures. We made it with batteries that made electricity. Ellen and Samantha helped me build it. After we built it, I brought it to school to show my friends and my teacher. Everyone thought it was really cool!
A dinosaur is an animal. A dinosaur has long legs, teeth, and a big mouth. Tyrannosaurus Rex and Diplosaurus are two kinds of dinosaurs. T-rex eats meat and Diplosaurus eats trees.
We went on the Internet and we looked for information about plants and where people live. We found a picture of a plant that eats flies. The color of the plant is pink. I liked how this plant ate flies. Scott was my partner.
At Engineering Open House we saw a robot fighting contest. The Undertaker robot won because it was faster and stronger than the other robots.
We saw a frozen balloon and it got smaller when it got cold and then it got bigger when it got warm.
We made an electric car.
Everyone's was beautiful and so
was mine. I made it for my
mom. The best cars were made
by Baby Joe, Laycell, Gary, and
Kenneth. My friends that
helped with my car are the
greatest. Ellen gave everybody
a reward.
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