Team Hyper Space: Four Day Week...Equals...Busy Week

Those four days sure went quickly. We are working hard at gaining the knowledge we need to compete the current project. We spent some time this week going over our beginning Need to Knows and moving quite a few items to the Know column. This process takes some time but the students were excited to see all that they have learned already and that they are close to having all that they need to complete this project.
In math, fractions are the area we are currently working in. We have had to slow down and regroup but more and more are catching on. On Thursday of last week and Monday of this week we are teaching each other how to add mixed numbers. It is neat to have the students explain the steps to each other and o see the light bulb go off when they realize their own mistakes.
In science, students made predictions on whether certain objects will sink or float as they work on weight and mass of objects. They had a good time experimenting with different objects.
In Humanities, students were very excited to bring in their individual projects on the place they would like to explore. Their visual aides were a lot of fun to look at.
Achieve 3000 is still a weekly requirement as well as reading for 30 mins per night and recording it on the reading calendar. These are things that will make our students stronger readers and writers.
The week of November 17th is our first Explorations classes for this school year. This is a fun time for all of our students to try different activities. This week we will also be having our United Way Penny War between the classes. Students will be able to bring in pennies to start the week to gain points for their classes and then silver later in the week to take points away from other classes. This is always a fun time. We are also having some other activities that week dealing with Bully Prevention/Awareness and concentrating on each of our strengths. It will be a busy one!
Have a great week!