Pluto, Brain Research, Puns, Graphing, 

1st graders practicing deductive thinking through Venn diagrams. 

3rd grade

"Last week in  GT we started the day by doing some more graphing. Then we went to the computer lab to work on our research for our brain projects, we did that for about 15 minutes then for another 15 minutes we worked on the memory games that Mrs.Horan had attached to a link in google classroom, even though one of the games didn't work all of us had  lots of fun. When we got back to the classroom we read a chapter of the Phantom Tollbooth. 

Then Mrs.Horan told us to go to our seats and ask ourselves a hard question;which sense would you give up and which would you not then she told us to write a paragraph about which one and why and when we were done go up on the board and put a tally next to which sense we would give up and which we wouldn't everyone thought that was a difficult question but we ended up finishing around 20 minutes. When we got finished with that we checked our homework while eating our lunch, but only a few people got to read their stories because the tray people took a while to get to the classroom because they're all in different classes. Mrs. Horan decided that we hadn't worked on coding enough so we spent the rest of the day doing that, first we watched a Brain Pop on coding, then we watched a Youtube video clip on a coding guy. His story started when a coder saw him on his way to his job, he saw that the man had made many things out of otherwise junk that was on the street and thought "This guy is really smart he shouldn't be on the street!" But he knew that he was going to be late for work so he kept on walking. The next day however he walked to work early, he asked the guy if you would rather have $100 or a laptop and coding lessons from him, The man said he would rather have the laptop and the lessons so they began the next day, the man learned to code and eventually made his own app that was similar to Uber but was a carpooling service, you would get on and tell the app where you wanted to go and then it would seewho else in your area wanted to go to the same place so you would walk to the same place then split the cost  for a taxi scince it was New York City almost nobody had a car, the guy was offered to live with the man who gave him lessons but refuse because he thought that it was very important to keep the earth healthy.  When he finished with that video clip we started coding on paper, we partnered up, Mrs.Horan gave us a grid, and we had to give our partners directions to go either ⬆️⬇️⬅️➡️ or color in to form the pattern we were thinking of on the grid. When we finished that we did a few minutes of Lightbot then got our things and left for our classrooms."

  Writing postcards of advice to students from another school asking for help on understanding The Seven Habits.

Lydia and Miranda designing their Comic Maker using ideas from the story they wrote. 

Algebra!!!!!

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Graphing and plotting designs

"During GT last week we started the day by doing a little bit less algebra than usual but the reason for that is we started graphing. Graphing (also known as x, y) is when you have a grid and you make across be x and up be y, each square across the edges has a number. If you have a 6 by 6 grid and x and y are both 3 you would go 3 across and then go 3 up and you would be in the middle of the grid (try it!!!)  We then finished our writing assignment in which we had to write a chapter about a new city we discovered ,like Milo does in the Phantom Tollbooth. We used the app Comic Maker and make a comic similar to our story. Then we went to the 5th grade computer lab to work on our Scratch computer games. When we came back to the classroom we decided what we were going to do the brain project Mrs.Horan had told us about earlier on, our options were brain injuries, memory, sleep and dreams, careers, optical illusions, Epilepsy, Alzheimer's, the skull, intelligence, nervous system, aging, Einstein's brain, the five senses, Right vs. Left, creativity, brain health, brain scans, drugs and alcohol, Phobias, Boy vs. Girl, animal brains, exercise, Dyslexia, music, Seizures, Strokes, Autism, and ADHD. 

When we were done the beginning stages of our research we read a chapter of the Phantom Tollbooth. After that we did a postcard for a girl named Kylie. Her school just started the Leader in Me program and the needed advise to Put First Things First, we had 4 postcards so we did one for each table. When we had finished that we got our things and headed back to our classrooms to pack up and leave." By Mariana 

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   5th grade

 Our school-wide spelling bee winner, Gloria! As a joke we had this on the board before she entered the room. 

 Nicolette with her Plato quote on her artistic painting. 

This week in G.T,we started off our wonderful day by writing about :Which is more secure - a key or - a lock? Why? Then,we talked about philosophy books and how we would be making our own. After that, we read a bit of our new book: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it was very interesting! Next, we finished painting our quotes while listening to some of our favorite songs. Later, we typed some of our philosophies. Finally, we talked more about positive and negative numbers and did some algebra. I can't wait for next week!!!! By Gloria