5th 

October 31, 2024

Student zombie teams prepared their presentations of the work they completed last week. They then presented their information to the rest of the class. Students voted on which team presented the best information and were the most prepared during their presentation. We have a leaderboard for the winning team going and there will be several opportunities for the teams to get points. 

We then discussed survival supplies and students began building a set of 12 items that they will keep in their survival bags. There will be several challenges during this study and students will get to use some or all of their survival items. Student teams will continue to vie for points to be the best zombie survival team. 

October 24, 2024

We read a graphic novel about a Zombie Apocalypse. It set up a lot of the geographic points we will discuss. Looking for patterns that develop, the connections between points and locations, and how zombies move and spread. 

We then talked about the fact that we have plans and drills for hold, secure, lockdown, evacuation, but we do not have a zombie apocalypse plan. 

Students created a symbol to go with their plan and decided what teachers and students should do. Students were also given a school map and they decided how and where we would go in or out of the school to be safe. 

Then we discussed resiliency . We talked about things that can stretch and squish, things that can't, and things that can and then bounce back and become stronger.  Students then chose 8 fictional or real (but not living) people who have shown resiliency in their lives. They then put them into an 8 person bracket and decided who would win each bracket. They had to have reasoning to support their decisions. They decided on one final resiliency champion each. At the end of the class, we put all their winners into a class bracket and determined a class resiliency champion!! The conversations and reasoning that they came up with were so amazing. I was so impressed!

September 12, 2024 

We went over what each Enneagram meant from the personality test we took last week. Students felt like they were mostly like their numbers. I reminded them that their pie chart results had tons of areas that were large and that we are all a little bit of many of the personalities. We challenged our brain with the polar bear challenge.  We talked about the importance of knowing yourself and how that helps you make goals that you can be successful in achieving. We made a WOOP goal for the 1st 9 weeks. The best part of the WOOP Goal is looking at obstacles towards your goal completion and how to plan what to do when you hit those obstacles.  We made sure it was measurable, so we can come back and look at our goal success at the end of the 9 weeks. 

September 5, 2024

It was such a great day in 5th grade! Our first time together is really about getting to know our teacher, our peers, and ourselves.