Thursday, February 21, 2013

Author/Illustrator Day

Edgewood has enjoyed a fun day led by Michael P. White, an illustrator and now writer. He demonstrated for students the writing and illustrating process, shared several pieces of artwork, and even taught the students how to create some of their own illustrations.

Michael P. White

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The students chose their favorite illustration that they created.



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Friday, February 1, 2013

Energy!

We have had a lot of fun recently learning all about energy and light energy. The following pictures show some activities the students have done when learning about energy.

Building a roller coaster to determine the amount of potential and kinetic energy needed to make the roller coaster successful.







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Learning about the colors of the visible spectrum.



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Learning about how reflection works through light.



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