More Immunity Talk & Quilling

This morning we had a class meeting where we talked about our upcoming Halloween Party, the Caribou Math Contest, and ideas for other field trips in the future. We decided that as part of our party decorations we will be doing Halloween Origami, and there is a committee of students in charge of finding origami examples and making samples the whole class can see. We will also do stain glass pumpkins later in the month, led by Ms. DeTerra. We also recognized Jay for winning an award recently for golf and celebrated Adrian providing us with the Caribou Math idea. Our next class meeting will be on Wednesday of next week.

Some time was given for working on the written part of our body systems project. Ms. D checked in with students to remind them to use the rubric and project outline to stay on track. We also talked about the writing process and how students were organizing their writing or doing rough and final copies. Afterwards, we watched several great videos on immunity and realized just how complicated the immune system is! We watched short videos from NOVA, GIZMODO, and Kids Health.

We have started a read aloud of the book End of Days by Eric Walters, which many seem to be enjoying. It involves the story of a gifted boy who works with a group of top mathematicians and scientists from all over the world to save the world from disaster!

The day ended with a new exploration of the art element of LINE, as well as SHAPE and FORM. We explored quilling, which is a scrolling, paper art. For information on quilling, you can see the pictures I showed in class at Dick Blick’s art lesson plan page.

Homework: Journal Entry needs to be finished on systems, bring field trip $ by Friday, work on diagram for project if needed, and reminder about Thursday parent night 6-7 PM in the portable.

Thank you and have a great night!