This week in gifted class...

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!

Detective Work

Today we started detective work. We went around the room looking for fingerprints, footprints, and notes. We talked about what it takes to be a detective. We had fun being detectives.

By Kendall and Ryan

Pointilism

Pointilism is a very fun and small art tequnique that involves very small dots. You can use a que tip to do it. If you use a tooth pick it will take a VERY long time to finish. Georges seurat used pointilism for his paintings. Pointilism is painting pictures using very small dots. Today 4th grade gifted had to use this tequnique to paint pictures. It took a long time but we eventualy finished.
Jordan & Chloe. 4th grade gifted!!!

Today we refreshed our minds about 9/11 and how tragic it was and read a book called 14 Cows for America and made a Tagxedo. A tagxedo is Basicly A wordle. we made one on 9/11 .we also pladed chess some of us relinquished on a little of our skills but got back used to it near the end of the chess games. Take a look at some of our taagxedos. -Sameh and Emir

sentence samurai

today in class we did sentence samurai,you cut out a whole bunch of words, and you can ony use each word once, and you have to make them into a silly but sensefull sentense.by adam and tyler.

Puff Mobiles

Today the students assighnment was making a puff mobiles made by 4 beads,5 straws,a piece of paper,and 5-7 pins.The purpose of this project was to work together in groups and try to make a successful mobile that will go the farthest.
Isabella and Momin

Third Grade Gifted's First Day

we learnd a little chess and played some games we made paper sheilds about our selfs and started a new prodject called Weslandia. We will be creating our very own civilizations. We work with a partner to come up with our civilzation. We brainstorm names, and came up with different elements of our civlizations such as: language, shelter, crop, art, music, location, clothing, games, sports, and lots more. We got great ideas from a book that we read called "Weslandia" by Paul Fleischman.
-Abigale and William