Mystery Forces

Which one of these suspects is responsible for causing the ball to roll down the ramp?

What do you know about the circulatory and respiratory systems?

A group of five third graders created a list of questions to test their classmates' understanding of the circulatory and respiratory systems.  Here are some responses to three of the questions:

Tell me in your own words what white blood cells do.

 Kiran:  The white blood cells fight infections and if you didn’t have them then when you get an infection and there would be nothing to fight against infections.

If you could choose to be a blood cell, which would you be?

 Sam:  I would be the white blood cell because I want to protect people’s bodies from getting infections and getting sick. 

What part of the blood are you most like?

 Anna:  I think I am most like a platelet because I am sort of clingy and I like to be important.  Important, like very helpful but not well known. 

Wampanoag Solstice Festival

Ideally we would have had a harvest festival when we harvested the corn last fall, but we hadn't learned about the Wampanoag yet.  So, we had a solstice festival instead.  We cooked corn that we had harvested and dried.  We made sobaheg, a meat stew with squash and corn meal.  We tried grinding corn and weaving.