A compass has been the favorite tool in math class. Timing, patience and a steady hand is what it takes to make a perfect circle. Come to open house and see our display of concentric circles made with complimentary colors. Students had a choice of primary colors or secondary colors. It made a nice colorful display as well as helping us understand concentric circles share the same middle point. This tied in well with Mrs. Kloth's art lessons on colors.
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The room is coming together, lists are being made and desks are in place. I am almost ready for my third group of fourth graders in the Savoy Carrie Busey School. The theme this year is "Get your Happy!" It will be a busy year of discovery, art and more. Here is a word cloud made from first names in our classroom.
http://www.tagxedo.com/image/0b92512dc12a4265 I have had a wonderful six weeks getting to know teachers from all across the US. We share ideas, pose questions and help one another on the journey of creating rubrics for assessment. I have a greater appreciation for a rubric and how it will help me know exactly where a student is on the grading system.
I am going to use a variety of rubrics this year. But on Day One we will learn about a small group discussion rubric which I will use that day. As the times goes on, the students will help me create rubrics for their work assignments. Thank you, Bob Wright, my instructor and all the people who have pushed me to do my best this summer. To see several examples of rubrics that I created go to my Science page. ther I started reading this aloud to Malachi but have really enjoyed the mystery. Now I want to visit the Art Institute in Chicago to see the Thorne Room Exhibits. There are two more books in the series that I hope to read over break. I will let you know what we will do with these when school begins on March 31. We have a family growing in the cage at Carrie Busey. Over spring break, I came in to find eight tiny pink babies in the cage. I was amazed since I thought that I purchased two male gerbils. Hmmm! What to do about this new discovery! I decided to keep them so the students could watch development occur naturally and in live time. We will be giving away gerbils to any family that would like them but the pet store will get the mother and any leftover babies. I may keep one baby with my male adult gerbil. Two is always better than one. And gerbils are very social animals. It has been fun to watch the dad snuggle up each day with the babies and their mother. The pups have changed dramatically in the two weeks that we have had them. Fur has appeared and they are beginning to walk. The fun started when the babies were crawling near the tube to go down to the bottom of the cage. It was like a giant carnival ride! Mom and Dad would rescue those who slide down the tube. This is my first experience with baby gerbils. Students in fourth grade paired up to use one glass prism to break white light from the sun into a rainbow on the sidewalk. We faced the building and had the sun to our backs to aid in capturing the sunshine. White Light = roy g biv
Students had a chance to name the two new gerbils. After much debate and voting, the names Pichu and Carmel. One of the choices was Caramel so we have had discussions about Caramel and Carmel being two different names. Pichu is a version of Picachu.
On Friday, we finished up the WAVES and ENERGY science kit from our district. Here is a video clip highlighting what the children experienced and tried with wires, switches, buzzes and bulbs. |
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