What a fun week we have had in each of our gifted classes! The month of October is flying by, as do our weekly gifted sessions:)
Our third graders are beginning a study of our "Nifty Fifty" United States of America. This unit of study will be an in depth study of the USA, inolving research, critical and creative thinking, art, as well as science.
The fourth graders are studying forensic science, and have had a great time engaging in the fascinating processes involved in this unit of study. We've arches, loops, and whorls of fun as we've studied and analyzed our own fingerprints! We conducted a "crummy chemistry" lab to analyze and determine some basic ingredients/chemicals based on their physical and chemical properties, and we are embarking on a handwriting analysis the week after next. In the meantime, we are creating glogs about eminent scientists, learning about artists, and working on lots of logic puzzles. Wow!
The fifth graders have been learning all about Rube Goldberg. We learned all about his work as a cartoonist, and applied some serious critical thinking strategies as we successfully put the puzzle pieces together to demonstrate one of his famous inventions: "A Better Moustrap." We've also been working in teams and to plan and draw an accompanying cartoon to our very own Rube Goldberg devices. Next week, we plan to actually build them ourselves, and incorporate some of the concepts we have been learning in our science classes such as energy, and force and motion.
All three classes have been hard at work learning all of the songs and lyrics for this year's musical performance. We are having a blast singing along to some old favorites.
I am so proud of each and every classes hard work. What an incredible bunch of superheroes!
3 comments:
Our fourth graders are loving this unit! They are so excited on Friday mornings and can't wait to get to gifted class. They return in the afternoon tired, but still smiling! What a cool unit!
I love the Rube Goldberg project were working on. Mine is called The clickanator. It's almost complete with shooting darts and pressurized air included. So far it looks awesome!!! B-)
I the loved the Rube golberg unit doing all the prodjects was so much fun! Mine is called the pencil sharpenater! I hope we do more prodjects like these the rest of this year!
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