We will be welcoming our advanced learners soon!

We will be welcoming our advanced learners soon!

ELA: We are working on choosing our novel for this year.

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

ELA: We are starting our new book The One & Only Ivan.  We are beginning by activating our prior knowledge about gorillas and elephants.  We will also be looking at vocabulary for pages 1-18.  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 

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 are finishing our beginning of year  paperwork to set personal goals.  We will be starting our first project Look Out Below.  We will be exploring 

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 3 and 4, reading the chapters, and answering questions about them. Vocabulary words: monotony, Mah-Jong, fiscal, tyrannies

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 1-2, summarizing the improtant 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 building miniature mummies with a continuous strip of crepe paper in 30 minutes.  We are exploring the concepts of proportion, tension, and working within a time limit.

 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 exploring the concepts of strength and stability by creating columns our of a single sheet of paper and 2 index cards that will be tested by placing textbooks on top until they crush.  

ELA: All Homerooms:  We are reading Murder on the Orient Express.  We are reading chapters 2-3 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 starting our Pioneer Town unit by creating and testing water filters.  

Royalty's Homeroom:  We are working on our Star Wars Unit.  We are exploring the concept of working circuits by creating working light sabers that can turn on and off.