Weekly update!

After a refreshing break, we got right back to the tasks at hand.  We are beginning to immerse ourselves in cursive...this will be a focus for us until the April break.  I call this cursive immersion because students will be working at the pace that is most comfortable for them.  For this immersion we are also practicing the art of Zen and cursive.  We are working really hard to get our mindset open to see what we already know about cursive, which will allow us to see our success with cursive.  On our first days everyone created cursive writing, and zero students felt a failure!

We are also starting a mini-unit on energy and motion.  For this work we will be using min-skateboards and inclined planes.  We will design these inclined planes to do two different things, maximize distance and maximize speed.  We will also be making conjectures about how energy relates to speed, and hopefully designing and using a speed-trap to measure the speed of our mini-skateboards.

Here are some authentic reflections from the week:

This week I was very proud of my partner  and the whole class for succeeding in the  skateboard challenge to see how far the skateboard can go.   A lot of people made awesome  ramps  and the rampes worked to.   Our  ramp  went very far.    It was a short week with a lot of cool stuff and  I am excited to be back.

This week we worked in discovery and my partner was Eliza and she had  a lot of good ideas and we had some wood and some ramps and a skateboard and I had a good idea because my idea was to make the make the beginning of the ramp high and then we had a ruler at the end of the ramp and then the skateboard will jump the ruler and then that was a long ride for that little skateboard.

This week we worked with cursive writing and ramps and I learned that friction is the reason there is fire when the astronauts come down from outer space.  This week we also did cursive like I said earlier and if your come it is so much easier and by the way when you write cursive you might want to know this slow makes fast.  Well that's the week. Bey bey!

(In this awesome week of  school.) Well maybe not a week of school. How about three days of school. We just got back to vacation we have been working on our math. And the new exciting thing we have been doing in class is energy and motion. Yesterday 3/3/16 we were working with  little tiny  skateboards to see how much energy they get to go down the ramp

I hope you have a restful and enjoyable weekend!

-Dave