Mrs. Horan's G/T Wonderful Wolves

Monday, April 20, 2015

Cute videos

Another G/T teacher shared this http://kidpresident.com/ on her recent blog https://engagetheirminds.wordpress.com/author/terrieichholz/. I thought you might enjoy it too.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Smart Amp, Genius Hour, Rubik Cube, Brain Box, and Quotes

Just too sweet not to have captured on film.

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FIRST GRADERS

Dane and Eugene playing BrainBox, a memory recall game.

Arianna and Madalyn

Cooper and Colin

Cody and Leana

Dane's algebra problems!

FUN FRIDAY!!! PUZZLE TIME!

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THIRD GRADERS

Jacob and classmate helping each other with math.

Royce drawing pictures of math vocabulary words.

Alexander building his model spaceship.

Madeleine 's constellation guide.

Jacob is researching the heart and how it works.

Austin learning the parts of an airplane and what each of its function does.

Michael is learning how tsunami's are formed.

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4th graders

Students discussing the order of events in Romeo and Juliet.

FIESTA ROYALTY

Using Shakespeare Quotes in art.

Bella

Lindy

Gloria

Madeleine

James

Nicolette

Alexa

Andrew

Noah

Carson

Shakespearean Theater Actors

FIFTH GRADE

Students spent the day preparing for Meeting of the Minds which will be held on April 30th.

Designing a Rubik Cube

Designing the banner.

Preparing the metaphor speech.

Aiden and Blake finishing the last section of the poster.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Adobe, Monet, Genius Hour,
Rubber Eggs, and the McNay

Kindergarten

Finding the sums of numbers.

Counting by fives with a little help from some friends.

Kaleidoscopes are so much fun.

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Second Graders: After studying bridges/structures, students learned about Claude Monet and his famous paintings by creating their own masterpieces.

Nyra

Amrutha, Kate and Mariana

Kelli and Amrutha

Micha

Deborah

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Third Graders

OOOOPPPPSSSS! I forgot to capture my third graders activities today. They continued to work on their Genius Hour projects that are due on May 26th. It should be interesting to see what their final presentations will look like, since we have an eclectic smorgasbord of topics from Alcatraz, constellations, tsunamis, and more.
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FOURTH GRADE

"The Smell of Success"

The students studied physical science and the concept of change, especially chemical change. After reading a story about Charles Goodyear and his invention of the vulcanized rubber, students participated in two experiments using raw eggs, vinegar,milk, and ammonia.