Happy New Year! Welcome to the new and improved "Mrs. Stage's Wonderful Website"!
What we Are Up To:
First Grade: We are finishing up our research on animals with echolocation. We are making comic strips and writing reports about them.
Second Grade: We are continuing through our challenge math/reading for information packets. We are working on organizing the sound garden. We will be starting our ABC research soon!
Third Grade: Our enigmatic warm ups have been tons of fun! (what does enigmatic mean??!!!) . We are working on some algebra problems. Why algebra? Algebra builds a better brain (as do other disciplines such as learning an instrument, doing puzzles, and, yes, even some video games). When the brain is stimulated to think, the hair-like dendrites of the brain grow more extensive and more complex enabling more connections with other brain cells.
Fourth Grade: We have been practicing analyzing the validity of some of the resources we use for research. We are now researching some very interesting topics. In Math, we are working moving on to geometry, and doing some programming challenges with our Dash robots.
Fifth Grade: We are continuing to work on our Fences STEM problem in Math, and some students have started a pre-algebra pathway. We are focusing on developing our vocabularies through some fun choice activities and beginning a school podcast (more information to come as we get closer to this). We are also building a model of the Jamestowne Fort with our KEVA planks.
Sixth Grade: In Math we either work on our classwork, our Vacation project, or our Algebra pathway. In literacy, we are reading and participating in Socratic Seminars, and learning about social issues, including immigration.
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