4th

November 2024

Today was an exciting day of learning as we had the privilege of welcoming a special guest speaker to guide us through the 5E lesson cycle! Mrs. McCage she shared her expert knowledge on how to craft and teach an engaging lesson. With her years of experience, Mrs. McCage provided amazing examples and ideas that will inspire our students to design their own lessons. They learned not only the key steps of the 5E cycle — Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate — but also how to apply these principles to create impactful and dynamic lessons. We are truly lucky to have such an expert in our corner, showing us the ropes and equipping our students with the tools to become masterful teachers themselves! The energy and inspiration in the room was contagious, and we can’t wait to see how our students use these new skills in their own lesson planning!

November 6, 2024

Students spent time collaborating with their partners sharing the research that they have doing.  They focused on making sure they had enough details to share what the Big Idea is about their specific enigmas.  We also used are problem solving skills to solve the perspective Ted Ed Riddle about Blackbeard's treasure. 

October 30, 2024

This week students continued using their driving questions and depth and complexity icons to drive their research.  They spent time reading and taking notes to become more of an expert on their specific topics! 

October 9, 2024

This week students decided on which enigma to research and their partners. I shared specific sites, articles and books for students to use as resources. We also solved this awesome breakout puzzle on research! 

September 25, 20024

This week we began our Enigma project.  Students looked at pictures from several different enigmas and had conversations with their group of what might be the Big Idea of what all the pictures have in common. We examined the enigma of the Marfa Lights. Click below to see information on the mysterious lights of West Texas. Some students either worked hard to solve the Breakout Puzzle on In Search of Bigfoot, or completed the hat challenge from last week! 

September 18, 2024

This week fourth graders worked on using the 6 Thinking Hats to focus on  how to work in groups successfully.  Next we learned about inductive and deductive reasoning. Then we were challenged with the prisoner hat challenge where they learned about the power of parity! See if you can solve the challenge below!!!!

September 11, 2024

We had a great day in Horizon today! We discussed what it was to have a growth mindset and put it in to action working through a paper challenge.  We discussed the importance of trying many different strategies and learning from our failures or mistakes gets us closer to a solution.  Do you have a growth mindset? See if you can solve the paper challenge as well!! Next we learned about our personality strengths and then examined the Habits of a Scholar to form a personal goal to focus on this year. 

September 4, 2024

I'm so excited to start fourth grade Horizon today! It was so great meeting all your students! We spent time connecting and learning the details of our class. Our brains were sweating today as we applied our critical thinking and collaborating to solve Einstein's Riddle. It was challenging, but we persevered! See if you can solve it with your family as well!