End of First Quarter!

Can you believe we have completed the first quarter for the school year? It has flown by!

This first quarter, our Transdiciplinary Theme was Who We Are; an inquiry into the nature of the self; believes and values; personal, physical, mental, social and spiritual health; human relationships including families, friends, communities, and cultures; rights and responsibilities; what it means to be human.

Central Idea: Self awareness informs peoples' choices in life.

Grade level titles:
2nd: Me Me Me
3rd: I am a writer
4th: My Own World
5th: Action!
6th: To Be or Not to Be

In this post, you will find the grade level reporting from GSP. Each time we meet, one student is the selected to be the reporter. He/She decides which event to write about and solicits a quote from a peer. The perspectives that follow are sure to be found interesting! Enjoy!

2nd: Kaden-Sept. 26: We cut 8 individual papers and wrote what skill we have. "[it was fun] because you can remember what skills you have." -Kashyap and Nikhil

2nd: Sara-Oct. 10: We did a vocab study. It was not part of the the plan. We learned the word negligible. "I thought it was interesting." -Nikhil

3rd: Graeme-Aug. 26: We did someone who. "I had fun at GSP." -Ethan

3rd: Jake-Sept. 9: We had to say what we thought about the question of perspective. We had a partner too. Olivia, my partner, said she was proud of herself.

3rd: Brandon-Sept. 30: We are making writing seeds! "It was fun." -Dylan

4th: Aeddon-Aug. 25: Ms. Haddock showed us the GSP test. We made essential agreements. We saw a video. "The essential agreements were great. I agreed with all of the them." -Neil

4th: Chase-Sept. 1: Well, we are working on Who we are and we worked on find someone who. It was cool. Grace said, "It was very cool. and it is part of our unit because we are trying to find out who we are."

4th: Sydney-Sept. 8: Write your own quote was something we did today. "I love quotes, so that was fun," I said. Grace said, "It made me feel special, it's a fun way to express myself! You need to write real needs, not just what you want to be needs." (In reference to establishing needs and wants of a civilization.)

4th: Mallory-Sept. 22: Today we discussed The Girl Who Owned a City and I broke my earls, it was so loud! "It was too noisy to listen to my own thoughts," said Sydney of Mrs. Falcone's class. "I think I might be deaf now!"

4th: Olivia-Sept. 29: We went over our book. I like the quote, "Never, never give up," by Winston Churchill.

5th: CJ-Aug. 24: It was the first day of GSP. We watched a video of a woman who helped make a huge difference to the penguins of South Africa. "The TED video was very inspiring, but very sad."

5th: Cristinia-Aug. 31: We took a pretest about the animal shelter. "It was confusing." -Cody

5th: Jewell-Sept. 7: We researched about animal cruelty prevention websites. "Love for animals is the pressure point of the mind." -Jewell

6th: Joshua-Sept. 13: We talked about that perspective is so important, and we learned about apathy. "Some one's point of view [is important]." -Alek

6th: Christian-Sept. 27: Our class is making a story about of random sentence our classmates wrote. "I thought it was hard because we had to put the different sentences into a story." -Maia