It's "Go For A Ride" Day!

Perhaps you are beginning your travels a little early. We hope all your "rides" are safe! Also, please see below for a request for donations.

Today was another fun blended day! In what we will now call "Humathities" (Humanities + Math) we used our knowledge of number lines to make timelines of our ancient civilizations. We used Nintendo's timeline of consoles and compared it to a number line, considered different units of measure, and then applied our learning into make a huge, gigantico timeline on our whiteboard wall, spanning the past 6000 years. The kids are finally understanding how time really does fly when you're making a civilization. That's the saying, isn't it? NO HOMEWORK! Unless there's something not done.

For Science, students continued their work with brain brochure revisions. We decided that since we are only working on these during school, the deadline for revisions will be Tuesday. In light of yesterday's session about demonstrating our best learning, we also decided to take another look at our Wegener CER, which was due Tuesday. Mrs. Motsinger shared the rubric so students can be SURE they are Meeting expectations. These are now due Monday afternoon with the expectation that it will meet the expectation. HOMEWORK Students self assigned anything they needed to make sure they would meet their deadlines.

In Humanities, students began writing an argumentative paragraph about what they think is the greatest accomplishment of their civilization. Students are to use evidence and reasoning throughout their paragraph to persuade the reader. The assignment is due Tuesday. Students will have time to work on this assignment on Monday so there is NO HOMEWORK.

Did you know that students who utilize their Personal Learning Time (PLT) well during the week are entered into a drawing? If their completed PLT ticket is pulled, they pick a prize from our prize basket. We have all kinds of things in there from small lip balms, to toy cars, fun erasers to sheets of stickers, and glow sticks to small stuffed animals, even small containers of playdoh. Can you help us fill up our basket? We don't even need brand new things. If your kids are cleaning out their rooms and have trinkets they no longer want but are in good shape, we'll take 'em! Thanks.