We had Halloween fun at Berlin Elementary School on Friday! The BES staff started with a morning trick-or-treat, allowing staff members to check out each other’s costumes and visit before a busy day. The elementary school students were welcomed off the buses by BMHS band members performing Halloween music selections. Thanks again to BMHS Music and Band teacher Mrs. Gould for keeping the tradition going, Mrs. Modesitt, Ms. Baker, the Mountaineer musicians, and BCSD Transportation staff for making the morning music possible. We hope all Mountaineers had a safe and fun Halloween weekend.
Find an album from BES’ Halloween fun here.
When Mrs. Healy, Mrs. Tregger, Mrs. Ruebel, and Mrs. Kneer’s second-grade students culminated their unit on the states of matter on Halloween, the Mountaineers rotated through three Halloween-themed stations with science experiments relating to solid, liquid, and gas.
With the solid station, students learned that solids do not change shape. They used solid shapes to create a monster in Mrs. Kneer’s laboratory while listening to the song “Monster Mash.”
Mrs. Ruebel instructed the liquid station, exploring how liquids are the same and how they are different. Students observed a variety of liquids being poured into a bottle and saw the science term they were studying, viscosity, in action: the more viscous, or thick, liquids settled to the bottom, and thinner liquids sat on top.
Mrs. Healy’s station was gases, where the Mountaineers learned that gases do not have a fixed shape or volume. The students conducted an experiment combining vinegar and baking soda in a bottle, which created carbon dioxide, inflating a balloon on the top of the bottle.
The young Mountaineer Scientists had a great time with the hands-on experiments themed for Halloween.