SWS March Students of the Month

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SWS MARCH STUDENTS OF THE MONTH!

PreK-8th

6th Grade

Blue & White Gala--Thank you!

A HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED TO MAKE THE BLUE & WHITE GALA A SUCCESS. Whether you purchased tickets, donated towards the classroom raffle baskets, donated your valuable time to make the event a success, or any other contribution you made=THANK YOU! SWS is a special place and your support helps to ensure that we can continue to provide the BEST for our deserving students and teachers.

Greek Bio Projects--by 6th grade

Greek Bio Projects

Please scan the QR Codes and learn about the important people in ancient Greek history. Sixth grade students used Padlet as their presentation tool. This is the first time the students have used this presentation tool after conducting a mini research project.

QR Codes for Ancient Greek Biographies

Lisandra	Jayden	Natalie
Jisella	Cesar	Julissa
Damian	Olivia	Giovanni
Ariel	Chris	Arial
Sophia	Angela	Lourdes
Jerson	Kathy	Clara
Daniel		ENJOY!

Lenten Bake Sale

The annual Lenten Bake Sale was held on St. Joseph's Day this year. The funds that were raised will benefit the School Sisters of St. Francis, who are the nuns that founded our beloved school. Thank you for your support.

Operation Support Our Troops

During CSW &the polar vortex, SWS rallied our troops to help our military troops by collecting items for Operation Support Our Troops. Thank you Mrs. Potempa for organizing this collection drive. SWS donated close to  lbs. of essentials & snacks. Thank you  to everyone donated.

Energy Transformations Continue

6th grade students using a few materials and an infrared thermometer while making hand warmers during science class. The students recorded temperatures of the materials before, during, and after the lab in both °C & °F. Iron filings were added, which helped to increase the hand warmers temperature 6-8 degrees, on average. The purpose was to transform chemical energy into thermal energy.

Voltaic Cell

6th Grade Science

Since studying energy transformations, we have explored the Law of Conservation, which states that "energy can neither be created nor destroyed - only converted from one form of energy to another"  (J.M.K.C. Donev et al 2018). We explored this law by using magnetized motors, batteries, and wires to use electrical energy to mechanical. Then we used two motors, copper wire, and no batteries to use mechanical energy to electrical energy. Today students used pennies, foil, paper towel dipped in salt water, copper wire and built a Voltaic cell. Students used the Voltaic cell to use chemical energy to electrical energy. Our final step was to use the headphone jack along with the cell and wires to then transform the electrical energy to sound energy. We can't wait to make hand warmers where we will take transform chemical energy to heat energy. Stay tuned!

J.M.K.C. Donev et al. (2018). Energy Education - Law of conservation of energy [Online]. Available: https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Law_of_conservation_of_energy. [Accessed: March 4, 2019].