In the classroom
Our class has been SO busy these past few weeks!
Exhibition finally came to fruition last week and the students should be so incredibly proud of the work they have put into this project and how well it has turned out! For months we had been gathering and recording data on our treks through the woods in search of evidence that animals had been there! We had been working diligently on our needle felted work, planning and designing what our presentation would look like and exploring informational text in search of facts about animals in winter. It was beautiful to see all of their hard work on display!
We have begun our work with fractions through some fun activities and crafts. They put their imaginations to use when they made fraction creatures and their own fractions reference booklets.
We have had a pesky little visitor to our classroom this week who has been leaving his messes behind him for us to clean up! He let us know in one of our morning messages that his name is George and he is a leprechaun. As the days went on, it became more and more clear that we were going to need to do something about this little guy coming in and playing his tricks on us! So, we dove into a unit on the engineering process! We identified the problem in the situation and brainstormed different potential solutions. As a class, we decided that we needed to try to trap this little guy! The students got to work on gathering their materials and building and testing a prototype before finally, they began to build their final product. They are anxiously waiting to see if their traps worked on Monday morning! We shall see!
