Hello everyone,

We’ve had a fun-filled week here in room 208.  

We’ve started our final research project of the year. This time, the students are researching lost cities from around the world. Each student picked a city and has been researching its history. They’re learning about what life was like in the city, what happened to it for it to become “lost,” when it was rediscovered, and what buildings and artifacts have survived. It’s been a great opportunity for the students to see what archeologists can learn from analyzing items from the past. They’ve had a great time doing their research and becoming experts on their cities.

As the students finish up their research, they’ve started working on their final projects. Each student will be doing a presentation about their city for the rest of the class, but the students get to decide how they would like to represent their information. Students are planning on writing essays, creating posters, making Google Slides presentations, and some are building replicas of the city. The students are really taking their time to create detailed projects. We will continue working on them next week. 

For math, we’ve continued focusing on geometry. Our Dynamath article this week had students identifying different types of lines. They learned the difference between lines, line segments, and rays. They also learned what it means for lines to be parallel, intersect, or be perpendicular. For Multiplicity Lab, we looked for examples of these types of lines in our classroom. The students found great examples in our furniture, our supplies, and even made some examples with their bodies! 

We have also continued working with shapes. We did another Multiplicity Lab challenge where students were shown an image pattern blocks and were asked which blocks could fit in the hole they created. The students found countless ways to fill the hole and it was great practice composing and decomposing with shapes. 

In writing, we have continued working on our stories inspired by Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made. The students are pretty much done writing the rough drafts of their stories and are currently working on the illustrations that will be incorporated throughout. The students are excited to start editing and putting all the pieces of their stories together. 

vWe also had some fun events this week. On Monday, we released our butterflies! The students loved watching them fly away to find new homes. On Thursday, we enjoyed an ice cream treat outside. It was perfect on such a hot day! On Friday, Plato had a Plant and Play event. All the classes went outside to help beautify our school. We picked up sticks and trash, pulled weeds, and planted some beautiful flowers! We had a great time! 

 

Have a great weekend!