Our First Full Day! What a great group!
Hello Everyone!
It feels like we did a LOT today! Thank you for your hard work!
Here’s a small picture of our activities together:
CLASS MEETING: We had our first class meeting, and Ms. D talked about how class meetings are mainly for talking about the cool things everyone wants to do! We are open-minded to new ideas and suggestions of activities or things we should try, and all of this can be discussed during class meeting.Your MACC experience will be as fantastic as YOU want to make it! Be thinking about what you want to get out of this year!
Together, we played a group game of JENGA, we cheered on each participant, and we managed to all take out a block without having a huge crash! Our year will be about doing things together, collaborating, supporting one another in our learning, and having fun!
TENZI!!!: This term, as we work on math involving fractions, probability, decimals, percentages, data, graphing, and more, we will be doing so through collaborative projects, group discussion, and games. Today, each person was given a tray and ten dice to play speed thinking and math games with new classmates. Have you played TENZI before? All you need are ten dice and you can do it at home!
READ ALOUD, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein: We are going to be doing a read aloud of this book in connection with our coming unit and math discussions about games. It has lots of great puzzles and riddles in it that we can solve as a class. Students also had the opportunity to peruse the many books in Ms. D’s library!
ROLLER COASTER ENGINEERING: The Fantastic Amusement corporation challenged the group to build an entertaining roller coaster for their amusement park! Today’s task was to draw up a plan, make a budget for purchasing resources, and build a prototype in the classroom using marbles. The extra challenge was the coaster had to be built with a million dollar budget. Don’t go over! Foam tubes, marbles, toothpicks, and masking tape had to be purchased from the master supplier (Ms. D). Points were given for different features and knowledge of roller coasters. For example, a loop was 5 points, turns were 1 point, spirals were 4 points, and knowing about potential and kinetic energy on your track was 5 points. Eight tracks are built in the classroom! We will continue the project and evaluate the coasters tomorrow morning.
MUSIC: Everyone met Ms. Hetrick our music teacher, and she prepared them for our special assembly tomorrow, which is an annual treat to welcome everyone to school. This is for students only, as we need all the space in the gym, but it is an amazing way to come together with all the other Suncrest classes.
MATH ASSESSMENTS: As mentioned in my beginning of school information, I will begin doing assessments of students’ math skills, possibly as early as tomorrow. During the upcoming parent meet and greet conference in September, I will communicate how those went, so you are aware.
LETTERS, NOTICES, SUPPLIES:
- A reminder that the letter back to Ms. D is due on Monday, Sept. 11th.
- The information from parents is due on Friday, September 8th.
- Please bring all supplies by Monday, September 11th.
HAVE A GREAT EVENING! 🙂