International Day of Peace

How will our students and community share peace today and every day? 

Students, if you decide to take action, comment below and share with your community! 

Happy International Day of PEACE! 

Pax,
Dr. Haddock

Mind Challenges!

6th grade enjoyed a well-deserved mind challenge time!  They explored with creating digital designs, handmade crafts, Bug House chess and Stratego!  We also observed a terrific and magical substance brought in by Braxton!  Check out the power of the magnet!  Click on the image to order your own. 

Don't forget World Peace Day is Monday, September 21, 2015!  How will you share peace?  Logan created an image to share with others.

Bug House Chess

Magnetic Putty

Logan's Peace Plea

 

Key Concepts of Organizations

Our 6th graders spent time creating Key Concept maps of organizations/clubs after researching different organizations Internationally, locally and at a university.  This is part of our unit entitled Clubs, under the theme How we Organize Ourselves.  Students will ultimately create their own organizations to participate and take on leadership roles!

Reasons people organize:
To take action or solve a problem
Create awareness
Cultivate skills or learn new things
Self-improvement
Be social and do things with others
Nurture interests
Enjoyment
Work toward a common goal

 

More Civilizations!

Our 4th grade class this morning did a Wordle Relay and created this word cloud of all of the elements they are thinking are required to make a civilization.  Let's see how our thinking changes as we continue to inquire using many different resources!

 

 

We also learned more about each other during a game of two truths and a lie! 

 

Elements of a Civilization!

4th graders have been busy uncovering the elements necessary for a civilization!  You can see the list they have created based on the TED ed video we viewed.  After learning about ancient Egyptians, the Mayans, and the medieval Japanese, students collaborated and created a list of possible essential elements of a civilization. 

 

Students then worked with another student to research a different civilization and discover 5 essential elements of that civilization.  This knowledge was compared to their understandings from the video to continue to determine what a civilization needs in order to be considered a civilization. 

 

Are civilizations limited to humans?  Locked in time and place?  We will find out more!

 

Fisher and Nick look at the ancient Roman civilization