Where There's a Wills...There's a Way!

August 14, 2019

What an Amazing Year!! Part Two

Part Two - Valentine's Day, the Game of Life, and Pi Day

Valentine's Day was a lot of fun! We calculated candy hearts in the morning and had a rocking Valentine's Day party in the afternoon! Our party was organized by our awesome room parents, Mrs. Maucher and Ms. Simmons! We had so many parent volunteers donate needed items and help the day of...you guys are awesome! And the lipstick game was a real winner!!

One of our Social Studies units (the one with economics) was based on the Game of Life...so at the end of the unit, the kids played the Game of Life which tied together so many of the concepts we had learned about.

Pi Day - 3.14 - we read about Pi, listened to Pi played on the piano, analyzed the digits, and measured circles to see the correlation of the circumference, radius, and diameter, and then...we ATE PIE!! Thanks so much to all of you for donating pies...it was a fun day!!

What an Amazing Year! Part One

Blogging got away from me when we hit springtime and for that I'm sorry. I want to post a ton of pictures of your awesome kids and tell you some of the fun end of the year stuff we did.

In a couple weeks I'll be starting a new year with new kids and just want to take a moment to thank all of you for partnering with me last year. Your kids are ready for fourth grade and I'm super proud of them!!

Part One - Wax Museum

These kids did such a phenomenal job with the Wax Museum. After each of them chose someone who has made an impact on our country, they each used multiple resources (books, websites, research portals, etc) to gather research. Using a handmade organizer, they categorized their facts and kept track of them in their folders.

After all of the facts were gathered, they had to lay them out into a timeline of their important person's life. This allowed them to see if there were gaps in their important person's life that they needed to fill and required them to really understand how all of the pieces of the puzzle fit together.

After timelines were created, it was time to draft the biography of their famous person's life in the FIRST person perspective.

Another important part of the process was the peer conference to give each other ideas and suggestions to improve the writing.

They also had to do a self review and revision in order to improve their writing. Their final step was to meet with me to go over the flow and see if we needed to make any more adjustments to the piece of writing.

And of course...the boards. The kids had been working on so many different things throughout this research process. They had created online time lines, they had composed Six Word Memoirs, they had created Thinglinks in the media center with Mrs. Schartner, and had collected so many pictures.