We had math tests for both 6th and 7th grade level math groups and BOTH groups averaged 95% on their scores! Wowie!

Apart from a final bit of assessment, we finished our unit on the Explorers this week with the students presenting all their projects: PowerPoints, websites, or Big Books. We learned a lot of information from the research everyone did, and we did some analysis of why explorers launched and the impacts they had. Now the students are writing fiction pieces based on their own explorers. They each get to choose the type of fiction. I will include the directions here.

We have our Banana Bash this afternoon, followed by the Art/Science Rotation, followed by Market Day. And math fun day to celebrate the fantastic success of the last unit! 

We may work ridiculously hard, but we know how to play too!

Have fun tonight!

As the students continued to work on their first social studies unit, organizing their notes and writing paragraphs about their explorers, we took a break right in the middle of everything to start science. And what a great start to science it was! 

Four people from the Keyport Naval Museum introduced Remote Operated Vehicles to the class.They brought crates of materials so teams of 3-4 students could work together to build their own ROVs. Then they brought tanks of water to test them. 

On Thursday we will go to the museum where the teams will continue to test their ROVs, this time in a larger pool.

Students will print their paragraphs for social studies TODAY and take them home TONIGHT to get PARENT HELP with revising and editing. They will bring the paragraphs back to class TOMORROW. In the lab tomorrow they will complete their final draft, polished copy to turn in to me at the end of the period.

Everyone finished their first genre book--AR test, worksheet, and book project. They should have picked out their second genre book and started reading it by now. Many have already decided on their project for their second book.

We just started on our first poetry readings. I am teaching public speaking tips. Ask your child about "Superman pose" or "three plus me."