ScienceThis week in science most of the students wrapped up their first astronomy artifact. Students selected a host of topics to study. Some of the topics selected were experimental planes, the Moon, space photography, animals in space and the International Space Station. Students also selected a host of different ways to present that information. This includes videos, slideshows, models, and poster boards. At the conclusion of the project you'll have the opportunity to walk around and explore the work they've produced. Now that students have finished their first artifact they'll be moving on to their second. For their second artifact they have to pick a different focus, medium, and group size. They also can't work with the same people they worked with before. The reason for this choice was to force students a little out of their comfort zone. They have all built new skills in regards to project management and it will be fun to watch them work in a new environment. The number one way you all can help is to ask them what they are researching and give them feedback on their work. Feel free to use our a copy of the Feedback Form. Students are required to get feedback in between drafts and your feedback can be extremely helpful in that process. Just make sure to send the form back to school with them so they can add it to their binder. As always, if you have any questions feel free to email me and if you're extra curious you're more than welcome to come in to class to work with your child for a day. MathThis week we got back to our regular schedule. With all of the snow days recently it's been a little tough to get back into our grove in math. Here's what we worked on this week.
Monday: Snow Day Tuesday: Book Work Wednesday: Weekly Conference and Book Goal Check Thursday: Game Day (For students who hit their goal) Friday: SET or KenKen (First 15 minutes of class) If you don't know how to play SET or Ken Ken feel free to ask your children to show you. Both are great logic games that you can play online. Check out the Math Resource page for links. Here's the set of KenKen puzzles we worked through this week.
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ScienceThis week in science students wrapped up their first artifact for the astronomy project. One of the main skills we've been working on in class is learning how to plan a long term project. This involves setting their own due dates. With all of the snow days we've had recently it's been a great opportunity for the students to learn how to adjust their plans when events outside of their control impact their planning. Some of your children have probably ask you for feedback on their artifacts, but if they haven't I highly recommend asking them what they are up to. If you happen to take a look at their work there's a specific feedback for them to fill out. You'll find a link for the form on the project website. When we come back from break students will begin to work on their second artifact. For this artifact they have to select a different focus, medium and project group to work with. Below you'll find the cycle that they will be working through. Within the first day or two they'll have their personal due dates set. I recommend asking them for a copy of those dates so you can keep track of their progress at home. MathI'm really looking forward to getting back to a regular scheduled in math class. Due to all the snow days our weekly agenda has been thrown a little out of wack. Some of our math time over the last week was used to get caught up in projects. Here's a break down of what we did over the last week.
Monday: Project Time Tuesday: Textbook Reading Skills Wednesday: Ice Day Thursday: Book Check Friday: Project Time On Tuesday we worked on how to use our textbooks as a tool. Part of this was using them as a model to create our own guides. This is modeled on the process they developed in the 3rd and 4th grade classroom. Here's a link to the forms we worked on. If you're working with your child at home and they're struggling. I recommend you have them try to fill one of these out. Even if they can't they can bring in what they could do and we can talk about it in class. |
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