Welcome back Class of 2023!
You can check in here all year with periodic updates, announcements, and snapshots of some of the things we are doing in class.
Yesterday was our first trip into the world of engineering. Students were given just twelve straws, eighteen inches of masking tape, and were to create a container that would catch and contain a golf ball dropped from ten feet! I was so impressed by their creative thinking and ability to brainstorm---multiple groups ripped the tape down the middle long ways to double the length, one group used the ground as it's main anchored framework, and another had the idea to weigh down their dangling tape with pencils so as to not have the wind crumple it into a fine mess. It was the first of many chances this year for your children to let their imaginations run wild in the name of math and science and I must say, I was really impressed.
Yesterday was our first trip into the world of engineering. Students were given just twelve straws, eighteen inches of masking tape, and were to create a container that would catch and contain a golf ball dropped from ten feet! I was so impressed by their creative thinking and ability to brainstorm---multiple groups ripped the tape down the middle long ways to double the length, one group used the ground as it's main anchored framework, and another had the idea to weigh down their dangling tape with pencils so as to not have the wind crumple it into a fine mess. It was the first of many chances this year for your children to let their imaginations run wild in the name of math and science and I must say, I was really impressed.
We've also discussed the core ingredients to being a successful science investigator, learned the core lab safety rules, and today had a surprise visitor, my close friend Mr. Cary Less, who gave us a great demonstration on how NOT to perform a lab investigation.
In Math, we've explored multiple ways to problem solve(put on display during our station quiz today).
Emails are up and running for students, who have also already successfully navigated Haiku homepages and submitted both math and science assignments through google docs at a near perfect rate on the very first try. They will also later this week submit a response to a "discussion" for the first time this year.
In Math, we've explored multiple ways to problem solve(put on display during our station quiz today).
Emails are up and running for students, who have also already successfully navigated Haiku homepages and submitted both math and science assignments through google docs at a near perfect rate on the very first try. They will also later this week submit a response to a "discussion" for the first time this year.
In the near future, we will exploring the scientific method in science and will studying all things graphs and data displays in math class. We will then travel into our Ecosystems/Biomes unit in Science and our Number Sense unit in math.
We really off to a flying start and I can't wait to move forward!
Two huge thumbs up everyone!
