Mrs. Horan's G/T Wonderful Wolves: February 2015

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

SURVIVAL!

Well, sometimes the lesson you had planned sort of goes off o

n a tangent of its own, as we well learned today. After talking about cold fronts and how quickly weather can changed ( if you live in Texas you know exactly what I am talking about), our conversation lead to what a person would need to survive in their home if they knew they might be stranded there for a few days. It was a perfect opportunity to teach the students the words,"cabin fever", since none of them had heard of it before. Students were given 30 minutes to illustrate what objects they felt were necessary for them to survive. Below are the results....

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FIRST GRADERS

A turtle's shell protect it. Other animals have different ways to protect themselves. Draw what it would look like if the turtle "switched" with another animal.

Dane observing our rock collection.

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The fifth graders chose a topic they were most passionate about and created their own quote. They signed their names too, "in case we ever become famous".

Friday, February 20, 2015

A Midsummer Night's Dream,

the Golden Ratio,

and Robert Frost............

First Graders

Dane reading the book that he wrote.

Madalyn's beautiful artwork.

Friday Fun.

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3RD GRADERS

Michael demonstrating the parts of a computer.

Austin asking his classmates questions using TodaysMeet.

Collaboratively working to the show the spiral in the Fibonacci numbers.

Jacob and Alexandra are measuring to find the Golden Ratio.

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4th graders

Designing their own figures for the play, A Midsummer's Night Dream.

Well, it took them a while to figure out all the characters and each one's role in the play, but they did it!!!!!

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5th GRADERS

Lizzie's creative perspective of the poems The Road Not Traveled by Robert Frost and The Voice by Shel Silverstein.

Toni and Austin's comparison of the two poems.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

100 Engineering Projects for Kids

Here is a wonderful, fun, and educational site that will interest just about anyone! Have fun, and please let me know when you have completed any of these projects. We'd love to see them in class.

http://thehomeschoolscientist.com/100-engineering-projects-kids/#.VOMgdIsbCi4

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Engineers, Flower Power,Diamante Poems, Educational Web-Sites

Jathan has named his design "Obtuse Tail"

Reid's "Symmetry Plane".

William's "Square Corners"

Lydia's the "right angle spinner".

Sean's "spinnerat".

Micah's "obtuse jet".

Deborah's "double parallel car".

Calista, Amrutha,Mariana, and Jonathan's "geometry building".

Debroah, Sean, Marinda, and Ava designing their Geometrocity.

3rd Graders -FLOWER POWER

Looking for the numbers in the Fibonacci system.

Alexander working on the Telestory app.

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Today the 4th graders went to the computer lab to explore different web-site (see below), designed diamante poems, wrote letters to George W.Bush (we will tell you later if we got a response), played Telestory on the iPads, presented our homework, learned how to design infographics, and more! How in the world did we get that all done in one day?