Learning about sound waves and experimenting to get low and high pitch.
Teacher Fu has been coming to class every Monday and Thursday. She is part of the Confucios Center's outreach to schools. She has done a wonderful job teaching Chinese. The kids have really enjoyed her lessons and have gotten quite competitive over saying, writing, or demonstrating their Chinese character knowledge--and all for stickers! The picture below is from a day when she taught them all the words for panda and the face parts. In the picture on the right, you can see Teacher Fu in the maroon shirt. We will miss her, but she is teaching classes this summer and then goes back to China. She is sad and excited she said to go home. We will miss you Teacher Fu!
Planet Monologues--This was the final Science project that included research in texts and on the NASA
website. It was a process to learn how to write a narrative and include all the parts and then make sure to have a costume. The kids turned in their bibliography and the pictures are from small writers' circles and hearing parts of their work from facts to what they wanted to say to be entertaining. The goal was to have a piece of performance writing that was between 1:30 and 2 minutes packed with facts that are specific, detailed, and new to their classmates. I checked out a whole bunch of books from the Latah County Library, Moscow Branch.
The kids had to self evaluate and another classmate that had the same planet evaluate to give them critical feedback.
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Graphically organizing the notes they have by putting them into a star shape to find out if they have enough information and what bullet points they can put on the card. It was to help them memorize and get the sequence of their speaking points |
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Sharing information and timing what work they have so far. |
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Mercury |
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Venus |
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Uranus |
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Jupiter |
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All of the Solar System in character! |
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These are the pumpkin seeds from the first of the year when the kids were estimating. By coming full circle they are planting these and made a prediction on when the 2 small leaves (cotyledons) inside the seed will open. They will take home their pumpkins and plant them. |