More on the human body!

Today we had another great day! First we started to get ourselves organized for work by getting our binder and journal systems set up. Students have binders for three things, and these binders typically stay in class. One is blue (the unit work), one is red (for math and other stand alone work), and the last is black (our portfolios.) Students also have a red journal booklet for writing and a blue booklet as an art journal. We went over criteria together for the writing journal and Ms. DeTerra introduced her pie writing starters, which students chose from to receive writing prompts today. The art journal will be for doodling and also for trying out art techniques before using them in larger projects.

For the afternoon session, we did some human body stations in small groups. Students rotated between different tasks designed to learn about the different human systems, whether it was labeling anatomy, reading about the systems, measuring their breathing rate, determining the length of the whole digestion system, or discovering their lung capacity using water. Please ask your child to tell you about the lung capacity experiment today!

Homework: All students have been asked to bring something in related to our unit to share. This can be an internet article they print, a link to an article they send to me in email, a book from home that has something related to the unit, a past project, or anything else they can brainstorm that may be related. I look forward to seeing what they bring in!