We will be welcoming our advanced learners soon!  Letters for Talent Development will be going home in this week!   Our Talent Development classes will start October 14th!

We will be welcoming our advanced learners soon!  Letters for Talent Development will be going home in this week!  Our Talent Development classes will start October 13th!

ELA: We are working on the novel Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumplestiltskin.  We are looking at the vocabulary for the first 2 chapters and their parts of speech.  If there is time we will start reading the first 2 chapters.  Vocabulary words: destiny, miller, rations, translucent, obsessed, hearth, withered, stiffling, rubbish, treadle

Math: We are exploring aerodynamics by building paper airplanes that can travel across the AIG room.  We will reflect on the process.

ELA: We are starting our new book The One & Only Ivan.  We will be looking at vocabulary for pages 1-18.  We will read the first 2 chapters and ask questions about the story.  Vocabulary Words: billows, patient, weary, migrate, forage, unkempt

Math: We are exploring measurement by trying to create an "asteroid" that will make a 2" crater being dropped from a height of 1 yard.

ELA: We starting our novel Bridge to Terabithia.  We will be learning about our author and vocabulary for chapters 1-2.  Vocabulary words: obediently, primly, pandemonium, unjust, hysterical, proverbial

Math:  We will be continuing our first project Look Out Below.  We will be exploring parachutes.  Students will finish making plans for their parachutes and begin creating them.  We will drop an action figure from a height of 60 inches.

ELA: Gilbert & Ramsey homerooms: We are working on reading From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler.  We are looking at vocabulary for chapters 2-4, reading the chapters, and answering questions about them. Vocabulary words: percolator, expenditures, extravagant, inconspicuous, orthopedic, chancellor, exchequer, veto, ornately, sarcophagus, embalm, acquisitions, curators

Gunn & McGuire's homerooms: We are starting our novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  We will be looking at vocabulary for chapter 1. Vocabulary words:waistcoat, earnest, severe, conversation, longitude, curiosity, curtsey, consider, antipathy, respectable

Math/STEM:  Gunn & Ramsey Homerooms: We are exploring the concept of stability by creating a staircase with 5 steps that can hold a coin on each step.

McGuire & Gilbert's homerooms: We are exploring the idea of transfer of motion by creating our own Newton's Cradles.

ELA: Davis & Detwiler's Homerooms: We are reading Pay It Forward.  We are reading chapters 2-4, learning new vocabulary, and answering questions about the story.   Vocabulary words: sauntered, euphamistic, dismissive, oversensitive, scrupulously, distressingly, divinely, idealism, transparent, revelation, expectance, repel, excruciating, indignation, petulant

Holmberg & VerBeke's Homerooms:  We are reading The Princess Bride.  We are looking at new vocabulary and reading chapters 3-4, summarizing the important events happening and predicting what will happen in the next chapter.

Math/STEM:  Detwiler, Davis, and Holmberg's Homerooms:  We are working on the Arctic Circle challenges.  Our first challenge is to build the largest igloo we can in an hour.  We will be exploring the concepts of measurement and area, and working within a time limit.

VerBeke's Homeroom:  We are working on our Ancient Egypt challenges by creating the tallest sugar cube possible with only 2 boxes of sugar cubes and liquid glue.  Students will be using a lot of their  math skills to determine how many cubes should be in each layer.

 ELA: All Homerooms:  We are starting our Hunger Games unit.  We have started by learning about the myth of Theseus, genres of fiction, propaganda, and Greek and Roman influences on the story.  Vocabulary words:  reaping, deterrent, poaching, maniacally, preposterous, haggling, adjacent, protocol, dissent, plummets, radical, predicament

Math/STEM:  All Homerooms:  We are working on our Greek Mythology unit.  We are working on creating complex marble mazes like the Labyrinth.  The mazes will be full of turns, traps, and dead ends.

ELA: All Homerooms:  We are reading Murder on the Orient Express.  We are reading chapters 3-6 and looking at the new vocabulary for these chapters.   Vocabulary words:  resplendent, delegated, zeal, ardour, surreptitious, eminently, peremptory, benevolence, caprices, deferential, voluble, sardonic, relapsing, elucidation

Math/STEM: Glass and Hasting's Homerooms: We are continuing our Pioneer Town unit by creating cabins that will be tested with a wind storm.   

Royalty's Homeroom:  We are working on our Star Wars Unit.  We are creating unique droids (non-electrical) that will perform a specific task determined by each student.

High School students are going to be working on setting their personal goals for their Differentiated Education Plans.  studnets will also be able to come to the AIG room during "Mentor Times" for any academic or SEL issues they would like to address.  The mentor times schedule is:

Monday

None

Tuesday

10:40-11:05

1:45-2:40

Wednesday

None

Thursday

12:15-1:55

Friday

8:45-9:10

10:40-12:00