Today, the 5th graders started their day setting up their digital work portfolios on Book Creator. At the end of each semester, the students will use their portfolios to guide a student-led conference discussing their triumphs and goals.

They then moved on to the 4th and final quadrant of their personality profile, designed in the style of Jackson Pollock. We took the work outside and got to splattering and using straws to blow wet paint across the canvas in a way that represents whether they are Judging or Perceiving on the Myers-Briggs personality spectrum.

This afternoon, the work of understanding brain anatomy continued. Students worked in stations to build a clay model of the brain, play a brain trivia game called -Ectomy, and finish their brain blogs and practice making positive and inquisitive comments on their classmates' blogs.

I'll have information available concerning conference options after meeting with the GATE Facilitator team on next Monday afternoon. Thanks for your patience!

Some students were interested in the recipe for the homemade playdough they used for building. You can find it here!