Spelling Song Creation

Students have a choice board to use with their leveled spelling words each week. Students in this group are working on homophones and created a song to use with their words. Their creativity provided some great entertainment for the class.

Genius Hour Presentations

We had more genius hour presentations. Thank you to Mrs. Ptacek's fifth grade class for coming in and watching the presentations. The students enjoyed presented to older students.

Reagan presenting on dolphons

Hannah presenting on architecture

Caroline presenting on cheetahs

Alli presenting on dolphins

Corbin presenting on fossils

Bella presenting on dolphins

Crazy Hair Day

Students celebrated Spirit Week with Crazy Hair Day. They went all out and had lots of fun!

Preston is a huge Baylor fan is showing off his BU hairdo!

Social Studies Image Perspective Discussion

The students are working on speaking and listening skills. To tie this into our learning on perspectives and cultures, we had a social studies image discussion where students would look at a photo (photos of many things they may not have prior knowledge of) and have a discussion using the following prompts:
1) As you look at this photo, what thoughts are going through your head? Why?
2) How do you compare and contrast with this photo? Why?
3) How do you think you feel if you put yourselves in this person's shoes in the photo? Why?
4) What do you think happened in this photo? Why?

The students did a great job of leading the discussions, paying attention and really thinking critically. For homework, they reflected on the photos and wrote about which one impacted them the most, why it did and what awareness they would like to bring to it.

 

Buffalo Bill Center of the West Skype

We learned about the plains Indians and buffalo today with the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. It was great learning more about their culture.

Bullying Website Creation

After our counselor's bullying lesson, three of my students, Alli, Emma and Reagan were inspired to write a book and create a website on bullying. This was all written, designed and created by these three girls. They did a phenomenal job of wanting to make a difference.
http://bullyfreeeverywhere.weebly.com/

Alli, Emma and Reagan presenting their website

 

Globe Scavenger Hunt

Students learned more about a globe through their globe scavenger hunt. It became a fierce competition. Students did a wonderful job!