Hopefully you enjoyed a fabulous Thanksgiving feast at your house, and are now enjoying the December holiday season. Let me catch you up on the last couple of weeks in Knowledge Peak classes (since I was too sleepy after my turkey dinner last Thursday to blog!) Quick update on each class and what we are studying for the month of December: 5th grade math – Test over graphing and data collection this week and moving on to a brief unit on setting up and solving algebra equations 5th language arts/creativity – Working on a poetry unit (both writing and reading) 4th math – Finishing our decimal and measurement unit and beginning our long multiplication/division study 4th language arts/creativity – Break for the month of December, but don’t forget to be working on Bud, Not Buddy projects 3rd math – Completing a unit on basic multiplication and division and will be starting a unit on place value including decimals 3rd language arts/creativity – Shared The Green Book projects and learning about literature circles roles and modeling good discussion for literature circles As I mentioned 3rd grade language arts/creativity students spent this week presenting their book projects from our study of The Green Book. This story is a dystopian book about a father and his three kids that are a part of colonizing a new planet Shine after having to leave Earth. The students did an AMAZING on their projects. They were so creative! Some chose to continue the story of the people of Shine including elements like adding new alien characters, finding new creatures, facing new challenges, and even the death of a main character cliffhanger! Other students took time to put their visualization skills on paper or models. They created maps (complete with legends,) clay models, and structures to showcase what they saw in their minds for the layout of this new world. Still other students used their powers of invention to create something that the people of Shine could use to make their lives better like wheat harvesting machines. A couple of the girls used their artistic abilities to show us a picture of what life on Shine might look like a year after the book ends. Seriously amazing work! Here are some examples (and more are on the photos page.) Keeping on the 3rd grade theme, before we left for Thanksgiving break, the third grade teaching team and I organized a fun end to our measurement unit. The Second-Annual Measurement Olympics were held and medals were awarded for estimation and measuring skills. Students were put into groups with teachers, and our AWESOME group of parent volunteers manned the stations to help kids test their skills. Events included the cotton ball shotput, the straw-javelin throw, the paper plate discus throw, and many more. Again there are pictures below of my team competing (and more pictures from my team’s events on the photos page.)
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