9/29 OWL WEEK!!!!!!

This week in Science we dissected owl pellets! Each group of two got two pellets. My group found two rodent’s skulls in our two pellets. On the first couple of days I was very disgusted by the pellets, but on the last two days I wasn’t bothered. We found detached jaws, and a big variety of bones. When we finished dissecting the owl pellets we used the bones to make bone pictures. In my group we used two big sharp teeth as horns! It ended up as a stick figure though.

The other thing we did this week was start to write letters to Mrs. Cuttatree. Mrs Cuttatree  wanted to cut down a hundred acres of trees, but this was a home for a variety of animals including owls.We would be assigned to an owl, and learn about it.Then we would write a letter to Mrs. Cuttatree with enough reasons why not to cut down these trees.This letter is basically the owl’s life. If Mrs. Cuttatree cuts down the trees the owls are dead. Mine is The Eastern Screech owl. What I’ve learned so far is that their Clutch size is 2-6 eggs, and their scientific name is Megascops asio.

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  1. What is the best place to find the Eastern screech owl?
  2. What do the Eastern screech owl normally eat?
  3. Where do people find owl pellets!?!?!?!

9/22 LOC and Rockets

This week we went to LOC!This was a great first trip! It was the first year my grade was there for two nights!At night in the girl’s cabin you could hear the waves crashing against the shore. It was so calming. Also 6th grade learned how to work better as a team, and I believe that we grew closer. In my opinion the low ropes corse was when we bonded the most.  My highlight of  LOC was when we played a fun game of defend the fort!

Now the Rockets! In our class we made AS rockets! My partner and I were testing on how high we could get it with different amounts of AS. Our results were the more AS you put in the higher it would go. Sometimes we would forget to look at how high it went and had to do it again. We had a lot of fun though! Just maybe next time we wont forget to move the paper out of the was so it doesn’t get wet!