HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 WELCOME 2016

First Grade

Ice Tunnels- Students observed the scientific property of salt and how it lowers the freezing point of water. The salt created tunnels in the ice as it caused the ice to melt. The food coloring helped them see the tunnels better and make it more fun.

Students were introduced to analogies and had fun using the iPad apps This is To, and Analogies. 

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Second Graders

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Third Graders

Last week in GT we started by going over the standards for our Scratch computer games we were going to start since we finished our Holiday cards. (We have to have a clever title, a scoreboard, a screen change, sounds, and to make it an active game) Then we did some algebra and went to the computer lab to code our computer games. When we got back we read some Phantom Tollbooth and then did some of the logic problems that Mrs. Horan had given us. Then Mrs. Horan told us what our homework would be for the next week while we ate our lunch. Th We later learned about strokes,  while we took notes as we listened to a video about a woman who had had a stroke. Some of the facts that we got how are 80% of strokes are preventable, a stroke happens when your brain suddenly stops getting blood or gets too much blood and we learned that there are two types of strokes, the first kind is when a blood vessel pops and your brain is suddenly flooded with blood, the second type is when there is a clump of sugar and fat that is clogging up one of your blood vessels so your brain doesn't get enough blood. Sometimes strokes are fairly small and people get to the hospital soon enough, but sometimes a stroke is simply too big and the person in question may have to have several years or possibly decades in rehabilitation, when you have a big stroke but sometimes you won't be able to talk correctly or perceive sound correctly. After we did that we saw optical illusions and tried to draw them but we were interrupted by a fire drill so didn't have as much time. Most of us did finish them but a few people hadn't. When we finished that we got our things and went to my room to pack up and leave. By Mariana

Brendon starting his optical illusion design. 

Students wrote a KWL chart with all the information they had learned about strokes.

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4th graders

The beginning of a new book, Wednesday Wars. Lots of laughter could be heard, and we are only on Chapter 1. 

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                                      5th Graders

This week in G.T, we had to answer the thought provoking  question:Which is quieter moonlight or embarrassment? Why? Then, we had to make a bucket list. After that, we sat on the carpet shared our answers, and said the thing on our bucket list that we wanted to  accomplish the most. Later, Mrs.Horan taught us about positive and negative numbers. Next, went to the Computer Lab and answered questions about the truth and lies. Later, we played the game "Two Truths and  a Lie".Then, we learned about Plato's Cave and answered questions about it. Finally, we picked our favorite quote said by Plato,and painted a background to go with it. I can't wait for next week! By Gloria. 

The class playing,   Two truths, one false.

Working as a group answering questions about Plato's Cave.