Artic Tale!!!!!!!

Today in class we watched a movie about the struggle of life of polar animals because of GLOBAL WARMING!!!!! In the movie they showed a polar bear family, of a mother and two kids. The babies are so cute when they tumble down the snow an dare playing around. During the course of the babies growth, they struggle to find food for THREE whole months. Can you even imagine not having any food for a whole day? Then the day had come, the sad tragedy of the movie, one of the baby polar bears died! How SAD! The struggle continues and neither the mom or baby has had any food, it is time for the mom to let her baby find its own way. How can she let her baby go in these circumstances?! Along with the polar bears the movie show a family of walruses. The walruses have an even a harder time because they can't say in the water too long and neither the land. This is a problem because the ice was not thick enough for the walruses to climb aboard on. After a few days, the walruses to find new land, well ice. That same day the baby polar bear decides he needs to find food and moves to a look out, off to new land. After three days of non- stop swimming, the polar bear finds another polar bear. After a compromise the other polar bear shares its food. Afterward, the baby leaves. On the other hand, the walruses had been swimming for a couple of days too, and land upon stiff land that they can rest on. A few months pass and the ice at their own home starts to form, so there will be enough ice for the polar bear and walruses to live on. How cute! They live happily ever after!

SPLASH!!!!!! Are your getting spalshed with water or dirt??????

SPLASH!!!!! In a class experiment today in school we learned about the water cycle. In this experiment we each had a part in the cycle. Most people were a spoon, which represented evaporation and condensation, their job was to take water from one reservoir to another. On the other hand, others were walking around with cups as clouds. The clouds would walk around the room and if a spoon intersected with a cloud before it meets its destination then the spoon would have to pour the water in it into the cloud, or cup. When the cups were filled to the top they would return to the ocean and rain down and then start over again. For the reservoirs we used tanks filled with water, some like the ocean, aquifer, streams and lakes. After we imitated the water cycle we saw that the reservoirs did not differ very much since the begin of the experiment. The scientist explained that this was a balanced cycle, but was this true, No! We now moved on to part two of the experiment, the truth. In this part of the experiment, we now added to other main people to see the human influence on the water cycle. To see the human influence we added a couple people with bigger cups representing our taking of the water and added two of the reservoirs with blue food coloring and one empty in which the people with the bigger cups would then fill. The food coloring represented the pollution. After round two we settled in to see the results. It was shocking! We saw that most of the reservoirs were empty, but the little water left was blue. On the other hand, the empty tank that the people with bigger cups filled was overflowing. after a nice long clean up we discussed the results. Although, this experiment is not exact to the amount of polluted water, this experiment showed the general idea of what we do to the water cycle. Do we really pollute this much?

Raindrops by Anon (science extra credit)

Raindrops by Anon

Raindrops are such funny things.
They haven't feet or haven't wings.
Yet they sail through the air
with the greatest of ease,
and dance on the street
wherever they please.

1. How is weather used in the poem?

Weather is used with raindrops, water that falls from the sky.

2. How does the poets knowledge of weather enhance the poem?

" Yet they sail through the air with the greatest of ease" This line means that the raindrops move through the air without difficulty, but with great gentle and graceful ways.

3. What type of weather is discussed?

The type of weather discussed is rain.

4. Would the poem be the same without the mention of weather?

Maybe!? If "weather"is literally asked, than no weather is not even mentioned in the poem at all. on the other hand, if "weather" is asked in general about this poem, than no this poem would not be the same. this poem would not be the same because weather is the over all main topic of this poem and within it is the topic of rain.

5. What literary techniques are used in the poem in regards to weather?

The literary device would be "a, a, b, c, d, d" Although, this poem's real literary technique would be description in metaphor.

6. Does this poem further your knowledge about weather?

No,not really. this poem describes the movement and feel of raindrops in a general manner.