First of all this week, a VERY belated update from our Superbowl challenge with River Gate Elementary in Charlotte, North Carolina. The week after the Superbowl, both my 5th grade math students and Mrs. Godfrey's 5th graders all collected pocket change that we donated to the winning quarterback's foundation. With a little help with rounding from the teachers, we collected $173 that was donated to the Peyback Foundation, which helps disadvantaged youth get leadership training and opportunities in all of the states that Peyton Manning has played football in (Louisiana, Tennessee, Indiana, and Colorado.) Mrs. Godfrey's class also made my class homework passes to be used on any assignment the rest of the school year. If you don't remember the fun we had, check out this previous post to see the original blog entry explaining our challenge: http://traceybean.weebly.com/blog/three-for-thursday-february-11-2016 One housekeeping item, the district has set aside Friday, April 8 as the spring conference day. I will be working that day and available if any of you would like to meet with me to check on the progress of your child in my math or language arts class. Please simply email me to request a time. If the 8th does not work for you, I am available most mornings before school, as well. Today we began our third STEM engineering challenges in class. Fifth grade math students are devising an addition to a rover that could take a core sample of the alien planet. Our "corer" is a straw and our planet is a banana, cucumber, and potato. Students have to be able to get the straw into these "alien" objects to obtain a sample that their rover could test. Fourth grade math students are designing rovers. Their task is to create a vehicle that can hold an astronaut (an egg!) and roll around to explore the moon. Lastly, third grade math students are testing safety systems. This week's system is a parachute. We are dropping our astronauts (Lego people) from a ladder attached to their parachute creations to test materials that make good parachutes and test the size of parachutes and the number of parachutes... whatever factors that will allow survival. I'll post more videos and pictures after tomorrow's completions.
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