Thanks for the wonderful turn out for Open House!! Big success!!
Civics students are looking at colonial influences and how they impacted the development of our government! Geometry students are exploring the concept of multiple dimensions through reading Edwin Abbott's satire, Flatland. Algebra students are tackling radicals and learning how to find their products and sums. This will later help with solving problems involving quadratics. 6th grade and 7th grade Language and Lit students are bringing back reading! Students are reading at home every night and are growing brain cells and building comprehension with their hard work. In class, we have been having fun learning about explicit and implicit information and how it is needed in everything we read. Students have played Kahoot, analyzed a text with close reading strategies, played games to help them learn this important skill. In Ms. Whitehurst's class, students are working together to annotate text to make inferences, identify explicit and implicit information, and determine author's purpose. Students will use these skills as they cite textual evidence in their writing! In Gibson’’s classes we are doing lab explorations - i Honors Physical science we started the Motion unit with a speed lab and in Advanced Comprehensive 3 students are exploring the Properties of Matter by testing the properties of water. Discussion - Leadership class List of Strenghts One student said: " I like to make people laugh" I said: "Ok, stand up and I will give you 2min to make us laugh" Student: stood up - he was nervous, couldn’t do it and actually did cried a little. I said: Why the tears? Student: "because I don’t like to be in front of people" I said: " comedians get in front of people all the time" A week later same student came back prepared with his own material, stood up in front of the class (confident) and made us all laugh. The whole class applauded the student. It was an awesome moment. Sixth grade US History students are learning about 9/11. They are creating posters to show appreciation for our first responders. These posters will be displayed during 9/11 cookout hosted by Mr. Andrews. Mr. Bartuska’s Class: Students are presently mastering Cell Division (Mitosis and Meiosis and related Topics). In addition, as an introduction to the Nature of Science, our classes read the young adult book “Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express” by Margarete Wetterer. This is a story about a storm that destroyed a railroad bridge near Kate Shelley’s home, causing the crash in to the creek of a steam locomotive and its railroad cars. This story was chosen to illustrate to students that “Science is Everywhere!” Following the reading of the book which I had scanned in as a pdf so it could be shown on the classroom screen, students were introduced to the Nature of Science -Hydraulics, the flow of open channel water such as in a creek, river or canal. Recently, I brought in a teaching flume, basically a portable natural channel that can be used to investigate flowing water and structures that engineers would design and place in flowing water environments. The photograph shows students watching the flow around a PVC tube that has been placed in the flume to simulate a cylindrical bridge pier. Phenomena that can be investigated includes Horseshoe Vortex Generation that can cause local scour around a real bridge pier, and Vortex Shedding that can induce lateral loads and cause vibrations in a bridge structure. Cheers, Mr. Bartuska This week in Global Tech the 6th graders put a lot of time into creating the tallest spaghetti structure. The goal was to create the tallest structure out of just spaghetti noodles and tape. Then once was the structure was complete they had to tie a marshmallow around the top to see if it could withstand the weight. This taught them architectural and engineering skills. They followed the design plan model with their group and had to work cohesively together in order to have the best outcome. Now they are going to be evaluating their work and teamwork and they will make a blog post on their own website that they have created! Comments are closed.
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