Mrs. Horan's G/T Wonderful Wolves

Happy New Year!

We started out the new year with a blast.

First graders learned the word "attributes" and spent the class time defining the term, identifying different ways to break items into groups and working with the iPad app- 30 Hands.

Madilyn and Ariana using a Venn diagram to demonstrate the attributes that they share and the ones that they do not share.

Colin, Arriana and Cooper hard at work.

Dane using the 30 Hands app that takes pictures and then records your voice.

Second Graders are learning about Word Chains,what comes next in a series,and analogies. It has been challenging for some, but they seems to catch on quickly.We completed our tunnel lesson by decorating our groundhogs and forming tunnels for them to live in. It was truly a test of team work, for each group had to make their tunnels meet in the center of the paper.

3rd Graders spent the day working on Pentoninos, learning the binary system and trying to figure out how to make the program Makey Makey work.

4th graders also tried their hand in Makey Makey.

60's DAY

The day began with researching on our Chrome Books the important events that happened during the 60's movement Discussions arose as to what the students felt were the pivotal events that accord during that era, from Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Woodstock, Neil Armstrong, riots,Andy Warhol, and even the Howdy Doody Show. We played several Beetles songs and concentrated on the lyrics to "Let It Be" First Mrs. Horan played the song without us knowing any prior history about it and we then wrote down what we thought the song was about. She then told us how Paul McCartney wrote that song about his mom. We replayed the song and it had a different meaning to us the 2nd time. It made us sad.

The students took pictures of themselves and used the BIG HUB LABS to make these pictures, duplicating the artist style of 60's artist, Andy Warhol.