What We've Been Up To:
• 1st Grade: We played a detective game to help up develop our convergent/analytical thinking. They may have brought their cards home to play with you. I hope you did well! We have also been growing the visual/spatial part of your brain with some Magician Thinking activities. We meet on Wednesdays from 12:20 - 1.
•2nd Grade: We finished our study of Fibonach by creating a Fibonaci pattern with mateials from our maker space. We are now inventing a new animal with specific adaptations to survive in our chosen habitat. We meet on Wednesdays from 2-2:45.
•3rd Graders: We are doing the Challenge Math problems together. Students have Math enrichment packets they can work on in class in place of the regular practice problems from the program. These reinforce the same skills, but use some higher order thinking skills and integration other strategies to complete them. We have been working on building our 3D printer animal totems. Students may need to finish these on their own time, as we have spent a great deal of class time on them. We are also practicing our summarizing skills with fiction and nonfiction text. We meet on Wednesdays from 9:20-10.
• 4th Graders: We are doing the Challenge Math problems together in class . Students have enrichment packets they can work on in class in place of the regular practice problems from the program. These reinforce the same skills, but use some higher order thinking skills and integration other strategies to complete them. Some of us are also exploring exponents! We are continuing our vocabulary study and poetry work. Our Monster Chain Reaction Theme Park is almost done! I will send a video with the marbles make it all the way through! We meet on Wednesdays/every other Friday from 10-10:40, and Thursdays from 12:15-1.
•5th Graders will begin a challenge fraction packet next week. We have been "going to" Sentence Camp and working on creating more complex sentences. This should make our writing more detailed, more interesting, and better organized. We are continuing our Lego Education Challenges.
•6th Graders: We have been stretching our brains using our Depth and Complexity questions and discourse with the book Chains. We have been working through the 7th Grade Equations and Inequalities unit. Some of us have worked through the Pre-Algebra Pathway or a self-selected math topic/project. We are all working on our Lego Education Challenges. These help us practice problem solving and innovation.