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Team 6C Egypt Night
Team 6C Challenged their 6th grade students with an interdisciplinary project and unit that explored the ancient river civilization of Egypt. The students traveled back in time to ancient Egypt, a period of pharaonic rule and great pyramids. Here they researched from a menu of many choices and required tasks that overlapped all of the curriculum areas. The unit was developed into five phases: content in Social Studies, research in ELA 1, persuasive writing in ELA 2, an independent home project, and a live showcase on February 25th. The opportunity for enrichment and extended comprehension, coupled with enthusiastic pride made for a terrific daytime and nighttime presentation.
Great thanks to the 6th grade students of Columbian and their never tiring teachers: Mrs. Calhoun, Mrs. Calvin, Mrs. Carr, Mrs. Corrigan, Mr. Dart, Mrs. Lofink, Mr. Rosebrook, Mrs. Walsh
5 FUN THINGS TO DO ON SPRING BREAK
By Liam Madigan
As we all know, spring break is coming up, but for some of us, we just dont know what to do, well, besides saying I'm bored all the time. In my article, Im going to give you some ideas for what to do on spring break.
1. Set up a movie night. Invite all your friends to come over and buy or rent a movie, don't forget to make popcorn!
2. Go for a bike ride. Get some exercise! If you don't want to ride your bike, then ride a scooter or skateboard.
3. Go laser tagging. Invite all your friends and make an amazing squadron!
4. Read a book. It's like TV In your head. I know it may sound boring, but as long as you find a book that you really like, you will enjoy it.
5. Go watch a sporting event. Go with your family or friends, buy some snacks, and get ready for the game!
Pi Day by Eli Fisher
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That’s pi to almost the 1,800th digit – but now, computers have found pi to over the trillionth digit.
Pi Day happened on March 14 (3/14, 3.14, get it?) If you missed it, Pi Approximation Day is July 22 (22/7 was the original approximation of pi, and is more accurate than 3.14). These days are worldwide celebrations of the number pi, which, you probably know, is the relationship between a circle’s diameter and circumference.
Pi has been known to mathematicians and geometers for a very long time, but only as a little more than 3. Archimedes was the first to get an accurate estimate of it (His was the 22/7 estimate, which is about 3.1428, slightly high).
Pi is also one of the most-known abstract numbers, and the first six digits appear in one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s sports team cheers.
Other days that you can have an excuse for eating pie are: March 4 (14% of the third month), April 26 (Earth has traveled 1/ π of its orbit. Exact time is the 41st second of the 23rd minute of the 4th hour on April 26, 4:23:41 AM. In leap years, it is celebrated exactly on the 3rd second of the 2nd minute of the 12th hour on April 25), November 10 (314th day of the year, Nov. 9 in leap years), and December 21 at 1:13 pm (355th day of year, Chinese approximation is 355/113).
As you may have noticed, on this year’s Pi Day, Google put a pi doodle on their homepage, like the Christmas or Olympics doodles.
Source: Wikipedia.org “Pi” and “Pi Day”
Join Team 8C as they take part in a special event with Price Chopper. As a result of a unit which required students to write business letters to various companies, Price Chopper will be visiting Maple Ave. and Team 8C for a taste testing. Price Chopper will pit eight of their products against national brands and students will provide valuable feedback to Price Chopper.
This Wednesday, April 28th team 8C will be performing these taste tests in room C125 during the following times:
Period 4 - 7:56 – 8:36
Period 3 - 8:39 - 9:19
Period 2 - 10:05 - 10:45
Period 7 - 12:14 - 12:54
Period 9 - 1:40 - 2:20
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What is a Census?
Since 1801, every ten years the nation has set aside one day for the census - a count of all people and households. It is the most complete source of information about the population that we have. The latest census was held on Sunday 29 April 2001.
Every effort is made to include everyone, and that is why the census is so important. It is the only survey which provides a detailed picture of the entire population, and is unique because it covers everyone at the same time and asks the same core questions everywhere. This makes it easy to compare different parts of the country.
The U.S. Census counts every resident in the United States, and is required by the Constitution to take place every 10 years.
The 2010 Census will help communities receive more than $400 billion in federal funds each year for things like:
•Hospitals
•Job training centers
•Schools
•Senior centers
•Bridges, tunnels and other-public works projects
•Emergency services
The data collected by the census also help determine the number of seats your state has in the U.S. House of Representatives.
