November 6 Update

Just a short update as we are on the weekend!

Students have given themselves “homework” as assigned in their agendas for the Math Project. Each student has agreed with their partner to take on a portion of the project. Please refer to the rubric given to you for the project. A block of time will be given on Monday, and then the project is due on Tuesday. The assignment was to analyze your data from the survey, which you should be able to see online, by making a visual graph of your choice, finding the mean/median/mode/range of your data, and then writing a conclusion about your data that includes an explanation of how you analyzed it.

We continued our talk about simple machines, and students turned in a list of machines and notes about them from the National Geographic Machines Series read on Thursday and Friday. Students also worked on our large technology mural, which is a collage about items related to technology’s impact on us. Next week, we will be looking at technology’s impact on the world more closely and doing a variety of activities to investigate machines.

We also had an hour of music on Friday afternoon, and I believe everyone was working on ukeleles with Mr. Wilson. Mr. W reported the class went very well. Afterwards, the students worked to finish drawing and painting on our Remembrance Day contribution of poppy paintings. They are looking beautiful and a few students will need to finish painting on Monday. For homework, everyone was assigned a paragraph to write about “Why do we have poppies for remembrance day?” and “How did we make the art we completed?” The purpose of this is not only paragraph writing practice, but also to prepare a potential presentation for the assembly. Ms. D will choose the best paragraph to be presented during the assembly, as long as the student is willing to present aloud in front of the school. It is also an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of Remembrance Day prior to attending the assembly.

Happy Birthday to Naomi and thank you for bringing in cupcakes!

Due to paint clean up, we had to cut time from having free choice today, so Ms. DeTerra will allocate some time on Monday to free choice. Also, at our class meeting we will need to decide who will register as a team for the science games. Any student who wants to participate must be available on the day of the event, have a parent willing to attend with them, and be okay with the media release form (meaning being okay with having your picture taken and potentially used by the Association for publications in the future.) On Monday, be ready to discuss ways we can do this. Fingers crossed that our registration is accepted, too, as space is limited!