CHS STUDENTS COMPETE IN SPEECH CONTEST
Proud of our group of high school students who represented Cardinal at the Rotary Club of Burton Middlefield Four-Way Test Speech Competition March 10! Tyler Z., Morgan S., Anna L., and Lindsay H. each presented a 4-7 minute speech applying the principles of the Rotary Four-Way Test to a social issue. The Four-Way Test asks people if the things they think or do are the truth, fair to all concerned, building goodwill and better friendships, and beneficial to all concerned. Nineth grader Anna L. took home third place, Wilson J. from Berkshire took home second place, and Cardinal junior Lindsay H. took first place! The top three finishers all received a cash prize and Lindsay will continue on to the District Level competition on April 10! Congratulations to all of the participants and thank you to the Burton-Middlefield Rotary for providing local students with this opportunity!
JES STUDENTS EXPERIMENT WITH OOBLECK
JES third graders celebrated the end of Right to Read week and the end of their science unit on matter by doing an experiment with Oobleck! To kick off the lab, students first listened to the Dr. Seuss book, “Bartholomew and the Oobleck.” (For those who may not have read it, the book is about a boy who has to rescue his kingdom from a sticky green substance falling from the sky – the oobleck.) After listening to the story, students then had their own containers of oobleck to explore with. During their exploration students applied their knowledge of the properties of matter (volume, mass, shape) to perform six tests on the oobleck to determine if it was a solid, liquid or a gas. Students squeezed it, stretched it, poured it, stacked it, rolled it – to see how the oobleck changed with each action. Students concluded that the oobleck behaved more like a liquid than a solid. Scientifically speaking – oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid. Under pressure it behaves like a solid, but remove the pressure and it turns to liquid. Students all did a great job with the experiment and reaching their conclusions! Thanks to Ms. Tropf for creating the oobleck and bringing the science behind the states of matter to life!
