So there are big news happenings taking place this week that I wanted to update everyone on.
-I am officially going back to the classroom next year in one of two settings:
1) As of this very second, I am going to be the new computer teacher at Yorktown Middle School next school year. I am excited about having students in my classroom again, yet disappointed that they will only be in the class for a 9 weeks during the year. I would have the opportunity of teaching 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students.
2) I have put in for a transfer to a potential 6th grade opening, which I would much rather have. It would allow me to have a group of students to build relationships with and impact the entire school year and would also allow me to start the Audio/Visual Class at YMS for the first in many years, if not ever.
-I also find out today in what capacity I will be a part of technology for next year. The tech director really wants to keep me on doing professional development for the corporation, as well as providing help maintaining the technology in our schools. Keeping this part of the job will mean a healthy supplement to my teaching salary which would hopefully allow Kristy to stay at home with the baby/babies longer!
-This Thursday couldn't come soon enough! We find out whether the newest addition to the Wallace family will be a boy or a girl! I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for a boy, though deep inside I know it will be a girl....
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Here's a fun science demonstration/challenge that you can use to win a bet or get out of some household chores:
Take an egg, just any regular egg will do, and challenge someone to crush the egg in their hand. Have them place the egg in their hand so that the points (or ends) of the egg are in the palm of the hand and in their fingers. (Imagine your trying to squeeze the top of the egg into the bottom of the egg) Make sure that the hand their using does not have any rings on it and challenge them to crush the egg. They shouldn't be able to do it.
The science? Simply put...(ask Andy N. to explain it...just kidding!)...an arch is one of the strongest architectural designs because of the way that the arch distributes the force applied to it over the expanse of the arch.
Take an egg, just any regular egg will do, and challenge someone to crush the egg in their hand. Have them place the egg in their hand so that the points (or ends) of the egg are in the palm of the hand and in their fingers. (Imagine your trying to squeeze the top of the egg into the bottom of the egg) Make sure that the hand their using does not have any rings on it and challenge them to crush the egg. They shouldn't be able to do it.
The science? Simply put...(ask Andy N. to explain it...just kidding!)...an arch is one of the strongest architectural designs because of the way that the arch distributes the force applied to it over the expanse of the arch.
1 comment:
what?
did i just read correctly?
did you say "baby/babies"???
maybe you were just referring to the cats maybe?
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