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January-March:
All students were involved with our service project: Operation FFA--Food for All. We collected over 1,500 food items to support Feed NM Kids! Most students finished Level 2 of Hands on Equations. We are almost finished with Level 1 of Hands on Equations Fractions. Students will complete Day 4 and start Day 5 in the Great Equations Race. Day five will focus on measurement and conversions. We have been busy finishing up research and note-taking for Images of Greatness. We learned about primary and secondary sources and students used a primary source for part of their research. We have gone over the biography essay rubrics and have looked at examples for guidance. If students haven't already begun their essays, they will start them this week. Students recently participated in a small group Brain Games challenge and are currently working on independent challenges. We will also be working on reflecting about our learning and goals to share at conference time.
Images of Greatness: Students continue to work on our big project in class. If students are absent or behind, they may be doing some work at home. Please look forward to May 13th. This will be our Day of Dreamers. Students should start planning an outfit to wear and possible props at home. May 13th will be the day they need to come to school as their person. More information will be shared with students soon. Please reach out as soon as possible if you will need assistance with an outfit. We will share "favorite foods" of our people as an optional activity/celebration the following week of May 18th-22nd. (If students are unsure of a favorite food, they can plan for something related to the area or time the person lived.) More information will be shared as we get closer to the date.
November & December:
Junior Great Books: Eleanor Roosevelt nonfiction text and Amelia Earhart
Rube Goldberg Unit: Simple Machines, Kinetic and Potential Energy, Conservation of Energy, Rube Goldberg, Laws of Motion, Engineering Design, Planning and Creative a Rube Goldberg Machine, Project Analysis and Presentation (or Independent Study project)
Individual Goal Setting using gifted strands and APS Skills, mindsets, and habits
Posters for Skills, Mindsets, and Habits (Perseverance, Self-Efficacy, Social Awareness, and Self-Regulation)
Afternoon Group:
Great Equation Race: 1st unit: geometry concepts, 2nd unit: order of operations, verbal operations, and operations involving positive and negative integers
Hands on Equations: Work on and complete Level 2
Brain Game Challenges (group challenge in October and individual challenge in November)
September & October:
Complete Self-portraits
Junior Great Books short story: Finish Kaddo's Wall and start nonfiction selection: Eleanor Roosevelt
Energy/Rube Goldberg Machines--after learning about forms of energy, the Principle of Conservation of Energy, simple machines, and force and motion, student will use the Engineering Design Process to design and create a Rube Goldberg Machine. (or Independent Study)
Creative Drawings, Critical Thinking Challenges and other whole group discussions/activities
Brain Game Challenge
Afternoon Group:
Figure Me Out: Students learned about the order of operations (PEMDAS) and wrote equations using various operations. Student solve each others' problems.
Great Equation Race: Traveling "around the world" after finding facts about different countries and solving geometry math problems.
August & September:
YOU: learning more about yourself as a learner and gifted person, project is a self-portrait
Recycling: learning about Conservation and the 3 R's, creating a presentation to share with other students at the school, school-wide recycling pick-up
Hands On Equations--Levels 1 review and starting Level 2
Math Project: Figure Me Out--using PEMDAS, students are writing difficult equations using various operations with answers about themselves (like birthdate, house number, etc.)
Junior Great Books short stories The Two Brothers and Kaddo's Wall
Creative Drawings, Critical Thinking Challenges and other whole group discussions/activities
Creative Problem Solvers and Growth & Fixed Mindset review
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