...is always exciting, and this week was the same. We continued our work in writing, working on crafting a thesis and proving it to readers. We also have revisited fractions, as well as begun to look at the relationship between multiplication and division.
This week we also began an investigation with Arlyn. This work will focus on programming robots. We started by using Bee-Bots, and sequencing movements for these robots to use to navigate a maze. After that we moved on to Mindstorms robots, for some more in depth programming. We will also be using these robots to learn about our senses. We will be comparing our reactions to information that we receive to how our robots react to information that they receive.
Here are some authentic reflections from the week:
This week, Arlyn (the library/technology teacher) was teaching us how to program robots. We started with Bee-Bots, and on Tuesday we switched to Lego Mindstorm robots. Now, we are trying to use the light sensor on our Mindstorms’ to stop at the end of the board, which is white.
This week we had Mrs.Scott as a substitute teacher and we almost filled our bucket but yesterday we filled it! Know today we are going to have a longer outside time. We are also going to have some robot time later and it is in the library. We also made a lot of writing about the book The miraculous journeys of Edward Tulane one of my teachers favorite books.
This week we had a sub named mrs. Scott. It was fun because we played lots of games. I hope we have Mrs. Scott again soon.
This week was pretty cool because on Thursday I had I had baseball practice. I was very excited to meet my new coach and when I met him he was awesome, I have another practice today. And on saturday before I came to school I shot a 19½ pound turkey. His beard was 9 inches and his spurs were ⅞ of an inch.
Have a restful and relaxing weekend!
-Dave
Friday, April 29, 2016
Friday, April 15, 2016
Thesis, evidence, and hexagon...
As we have worked toward the April break, we have been focused on the topics listed above, as well as others. During our literacy and writing time we have been working on crafting a thesis about the characters in our books. Once we have a thesis we have worked to prove it by citing evidence from the book. This evidence takes the form of lists of attributes about the character, character actions that connect to a theme of the book, along with well chosen quotes.
Hexagons...we have been using these to understand and illustrate circles and how they are measured. If you have a hexagon, and circumscribe a circle around it, the length of one side of the hexagon will be the same length as the radius of the circle. This can also be a helpful illustration as to why circles are measured in 360 degrees. The interior vertices of the six triangles that make up a hexagon, all have the measure of 60 degrees, and as there are six of these angles the sum of these...you get the idea.
Authentic reflections:
This week has gone by fast but it was a blast. We also worked on triangles and hexagons to and we got them wrong or right and nobody picked a fight. This week in pe we played man hunt with you and we had a large playing ground where we could run and have fun. This leads up to April break with lots fun but everybody had fun in this last week of school. And we had a blast with our friends but in this last week school nobody went boo hoo hoo.
This week has been an awesome week at school, I had GOTR and there was the school talent show, but one one thing that I most liked doing this week at school was learning how to make a hexagon out of triangles. After we made the hexagon we made a circle to see how precise are hexagon(s) were. That was very fun! What we did at girls on the run this week was an activity which includes running in the hallways. Then we got ready to go on a run (we were stretching.) Also this week I went to the talent show, it was really, really good. Today I am going to see the talent show again at school. That was my awesome week at school.
This week in Library we have been working on our book trailers. Some people decided to partner up with others and form a team. First we chose a book, I chose Gregor the Overlander written by Suzanne Collins. Then we made a planner filling out the scenes, what they would say, and how we would make them. Finally we are starting to take pictures of our scenes and doing the writing work. To actually finish the project we upload the videos and images onto WeVideo. Most of our projects end in a ? to leave the people who are watching the presentation with a mystery. This makes them want to read the book and find out how the mystery ends, just like a movie trailer. With in the presentation we can choose different fonts to emphasize the feeling of the book, for example, scary, sad, happy… etc…
In math we have been drawing triangles.& we made hexagons it was off by a few inches and then we made a circle around the hexagon.
This week I was happy because we were doing nature journaling and I was doing lots of cool stuff in football like intercepting the ball and making touchdowns! We were learning some cool stuff like in literacy we were talking about forest fires and how they can spread. I was amazed when Mr.Willard told us the story about when the guy was going to get swallowed by blazing hot fire, but listen to this he made another fire and got in the ashes is it that crazy! The best thing was the talent show.
Enjoy your April break, and we will see everyone again on the 25th!
-Dave
Hexagons...we have been using these to understand and illustrate circles and how they are measured. If you have a hexagon, and circumscribe a circle around it, the length of one side of the hexagon will be the same length as the radius of the circle. This can also be a helpful illustration as to why circles are measured in 360 degrees. The interior vertices of the six triangles that make up a hexagon, all have the measure of 60 degrees, and as there are six of these angles the sum of these...you get the idea.
Authentic reflections:
This week has gone by fast but it was a blast. We also worked on triangles and hexagons to and we got them wrong or right and nobody picked a fight. This week in pe we played man hunt with you and we had a large playing ground where we could run and have fun. This leads up to April break with lots fun but everybody had fun in this last week of school. And we had a blast with our friends but in this last week school nobody went boo hoo hoo.
This week has been an awesome week at school, I had GOTR and there was the school talent show, but one one thing that I most liked doing this week at school was learning how to make a hexagon out of triangles. After we made the hexagon we made a circle to see how precise are hexagon(s) were. That was very fun! What we did at girls on the run this week was an activity which includes running in the hallways. Then we got ready to go on a run (we were stretching.) Also this week I went to the talent show, it was really, really good. Today I am going to see the talent show again at school. That was my awesome week at school.
This week in Library we have been working on our book trailers. Some people decided to partner up with others and form a team. First we chose a book, I chose Gregor the Overlander written by Suzanne Collins. Then we made a planner filling out the scenes, what they would say, and how we would make them. Finally we are starting to take pictures of our scenes and doing the writing work. To actually finish the project we upload the videos and images onto WeVideo. Most of our projects end in a ? to leave the people who are watching the presentation with a mystery. This makes them want to read the book and find out how the mystery ends, just like a movie trailer. With in the presentation we can choose different fonts to emphasize the feeling of the book, for example, scary, sad, happy… etc…
In math we have been drawing triangles.& we made hexagons it was off by a few inches and then we made a circle around the hexagon.
This week I was happy because we were doing nature journaling and I was doing lots of cool stuff in football like intercepting the ball and making touchdowns! We were learning some cool stuff like in literacy we were talking about forest fires and how they can spread. I was amazed when Mr.Willard told us the story about when the guy was going to get swallowed by blazing hot fire, but listen to this he made another fire and got in the ashes is it that crazy! The best thing was the talent show.
Enjoy your April break, and we will see everyone again on the 25th!
-Dave
Friday, April 8, 2016
Working, working, working...
This week, as usual, saw a lot of focused work in our classroom. We continued our work reading historical fiction, we learned to write thesis statements, and we graphed and analyzed some data. During our literacy time we have been focussed on reading historical fiction, the title we are using is The Little House in the Big Woods. This book really lends itself to learning to digest and "unpack" historical fiction, it is rich with details and vivid imagery. We have been reading chapters, and using outside sources to increase the understanding that we have about the setting, time, and actions in the book.
We have also been using this book during our writing time.We have been using the characters in this book as a basis for learning to craft thesis statements and to back these up with evidence. We practiced one of my favorite skills on Thursday, identifying quotes to use. Students gained the understanding that a quote from a book can be more than a piece of dialogue, but any text from a book. We also worked on the length of quotes that can be used for maximum effect.
During our discovery and math time we have been working on division, as well as graphing data collected as we roll mini-skateboards down cardboard ramps. The data we collected was ramp angle, and the speed that the skateboard travelled. We translated this data into a graph, and are working on interpreting the results.
Authentic reflections from the week:
This week, in Writing/Reading, we were working on a thesis. We also learned to “angle” a story. On Monday, I had the chair. The book that the whole class is reading is called Little House in the Big Woods. We finished reading The Magician's Elephant yesterday.
This week in math we measured the speed of ramps in our math journals. And it was fun because of the measuring why the measuring because the measuring can be fun for learning. Well that's the week bye bye!
This week in Art, we have been finishing our HUMAN BODY unit. So far we have made flexible proportionate paper human body models, then we traced in a position onto a piece of paper, decorated them, cut them out, glued them to a colored paper sheet, and did some more decorating. My picture is of Gabrielle Douglas in the 2015 all around tournament. Right above the Picture on the red paper it says “This Girl is on FIRE” then I made a “Fire” out of tissue paper.
In this week we have done lots of fun stuff like in reatech we are doing a new challenge with cunects. It is fun to do it because we made the cars and we test stuff out and then record it on a graph. And today we have pe and we are doing a relay fun game called chipp reck,we have to have lots of focus in this game and you have to be aware of the stuff that you yous like if you have a scooter and you do not know how to get to the other side you have to think what will be useful, and you need to be helpful if people need help getting over to the other side, and you need to see what people have in mind. In art we are still working on our project, and I am almost done with mine! I really like math because we are doing some fun graphing speed and digress, I think I did a good job doing it.
I hope you have a restful and relaxing weekend.
-Dave
We have also been using this book during our writing time.We have been using the characters in this book as a basis for learning to craft thesis statements and to back these up with evidence. We practiced one of my favorite skills on Thursday, identifying quotes to use. Students gained the understanding that a quote from a book can be more than a piece of dialogue, but any text from a book. We also worked on the length of quotes that can be used for maximum effect.
During our discovery and math time we have been working on division, as well as graphing data collected as we roll mini-skateboards down cardboard ramps. The data we collected was ramp angle, and the speed that the skateboard travelled. We translated this data into a graph, and are working on interpreting the results.
Authentic reflections from the week:
This week, in Writing/Reading, we were working on a thesis. We also learned to “angle” a story. On Monday, I had the chair. The book that the whole class is reading is called Little House in the Big Woods. We finished reading The Magician's Elephant yesterday.
This week in math we measured the speed of ramps in our math journals. And it was fun because of the measuring why the measuring because the measuring can be fun for learning. Well that's the week bye bye!
This week in Art, we have been finishing our HUMAN BODY unit. So far we have made flexible proportionate paper human body models, then we traced in a position onto a piece of paper, decorated them, cut them out, glued them to a colored paper sheet, and did some more decorating. My picture is of Gabrielle Douglas in the 2015 all around tournament. Right above the Picture on the red paper it says “This Girl is on FIRE” then I made a “Fire” out of tissue paper.
In this week we have done lots of fun stuff like in reatech we are doing a new challenge with cunects. It is fun to do it because we made the cars and we test stuff out and then record it on a graph. And today we have pe and we are doing a relay fun game called chipp reck,we have to have lots of focus in this game and you have to be aware of the stuff that you yous like if you have a scooter and you do not know how to get to the other side you have to think what will be useful, and you need to be helpful if people need help getting over to the other side, and you need to see what people have in mind. In art we are still working on our project, and I am almost done with mine! I really like math because we are doing some fun graphing speed and digress, I think I did a good job doing it.
I hope you have a restful and relaxing weekend.
-Dave
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