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

Details,Magic Crystals,Neurons,Hardberger Park, and Socrates

FIRST GRADERS

Today's scavenger hunt was to find the scholar bag that talked about details, one of the deep and complex ways of thinking. The students had fun and were able to , with the help of clues, find the hidden bag in the front office.

Kayle writing a detailed story about her window and what she observed outside.

Zachary finding the DETAILS of a rock.

Victoria observing the DETAILS of a pheasant feather.

Reading the clues to Mrs. Rizzuto, our front office helper.

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2nd graders

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3rd GRADERS

Today we learned more about neurons, dendrites, synopses,and cell bodies.

"In GT class we started the day with some algebra after that we read a few pages of The Phantom Tollbooth the we went to the computer lab and practiced Scratch for about an hour,when we got back to the class we made neurons out of candy,the nucleus was a tic tack,the nucleus makes the electric signal so the axon (we used gummy worms for those)can send them,we used mini recess peanut butter cups for the cell body which processes the electric signals sent by other neurons,and finally dendrites branch out from the cell body to receive electric signals sent by other cell's axons (we used tooth picks for those). When we were done we walked around the room with a colored marker answer questions on a sheet of paper. They were things that we were thankful for like: what are you thankful for that is green? What is a teacher thankful for? Then after that we finished the chapter of The Phantom Tollbooth that we had started earlier that day and left."