We had a fantastic time at our Frog Dissection on May 12th! Check out the photos below:
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There was a lot of great learning today!
Frog Projects are mostly finished! They will be presented Gallery Walk style in the Target rooms from 8-9 next Friday. You're welcome to stop by and see all the great work. (Remember, Target Day will be Friday next week.) Our Dissection Day is this Friday. To prepare, we watched 2 dissection videos and worked on labeling diagrams of different body systems of the Frog Anatomy. We also finished a creative writing task where the kids rewrite a chapter, create a new ending, or write an epilogue for the novel. We shared some in class today and will share the rest next week. HW: Frog Project Until next time, Dr. Kraeger We had a fantastic day of learning! We started with excellent progress on the Frog Projects. Many of the kids are nearing the conclusion of their projects. We checked for at least 2 "Thick" Research Questions today and took a look at their notes (just to make sure they were paraphrasing, not plagiarizing!). We'll check the remaining kiddos next week. The projects will be presented on May 19th in a Gallery Walk. Details to come next week. We enjoyed using our divergent thinking and communication skills to create a new ending, epilogue, or new chapter for our novel, The Way to Stay in Destiny. We're impressed by the ideas so far. The chapters are SO creative and clever! They really captures the tone and voice of the novel. Several of the kids finished their chapters and are working on illustrations. We'll share them next week. Our BIG event of the day was a Frog Breakout. The kids were SO very excited to do our first Breakout activity! They solved all the riddles, codes, and puzzles to break out of the Locked Box in less than an hour!! Take a look at a few of the tasks they faced:     HW: Edmodo-Reflection on Frog Breakout Until next time, Dr. Kraeger Milestones testing continued for our 5th Graders today. So this morning, we took our Target class on the road and hung out in the Media Center for the morning! We got started on our Frog Projects right away, with the kids making great progress! We are VERY excited to see the variety of projects we have this year--Lots of interesting frogs and ways to share what we've learned! We used our convergent thinking skills to solve two different puzzles, both were about FROGS! The first puzzle was a visual challenge, while the second was more like our regular logic puzzles. Later, we combined the convergent and algebraic thinking skills to solve Number Pattern Puzzles. Those were very difficult, so we'll continue them next week. We used critical and algebraic thinking to tackle a Math Stars problem solving activity. The kids did well, even though we had a few new concepts to learn (mean, median, mode). We had a great time trying "Back to Back" Drawing with some Frog pictures. They were pretty difficult, so the kids learned a lot about communication skills and giving good directions. We finally finished our novel! The kids loved the book, especially the ending. It is a fantastic story! I can see why the kids loved it so much. We're looking forward to a VERY special activity next week. I'll be sending out another note on REMIND, just in case you missed the first one. SHHH! It's a secret! Please don't reveal the details! HW: Edmodo Until next week, Dr. Kraeger Our day got off to a late start because of Milestones Testing. Once we finally got the kids, we were able to squeeze in a short recess before lunch. We spent a good chunk of time finishing up Frog research and starting projects. I'm looking forward to some FANTASTIC projects! Finally, we read more of our novel with some critical thinking questions on Kahoot. We'll have the regular Target schedule next week, with kids coming to Target first thing in the morning--no CME on Target Day. HW: Edmodo-Frog Project Question Until next week, Dr. Kraeger We had a fantastic day of learning in Target! We started with a Frog Logic Puzzle, followed by some frog vocabulary and a review of our Frog Project Rubric to clarify expectations for this project. You can take a look at the details on Frog Project Rubric. The Project is due on May 18th, with a Gallery Walk that day. More details about that to come! We also spent time researching our frogs with a few finishing and moving on to creating the project. We continued our work on algebraic thinking with some moving on to new Hands On Equations lessons and others applying those skills to more challenging word problems. We used our creativity to SCAMPER a frog! Check out the clever, amazing ideas outside our classroom. We continued our Mindfulness practice with Guided Mindfulness-5 Minutes. While reading our novel, we started with a preview of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and continued with our critical thinking skills as we responded to Ch.20 Padlet. HW: Edmodo Until next week, Dr. Kraeger We started off strong today, with a tough Versatiles math challenge. They didn't all finish, but most were able to solve at least part of the challenge.
Algebraic Thinking: We dove back into our word problems today, seems to be getting easier for the kids. Great news! Novel Study: We read a bit more of our book and watched a short video clip of how Vietnam Vets were treated when they came back from the War. Tough stuff! We also learned about "Fair Weather Friends" and used our divergent thinking skills to create collages of "Lucky Charms" to go along with our chapter. Unit Study: We reviewed evaluating Online Sources and effective paraphrasing to prepare for our frog research. The kids were all able to find some excellent facts about their frogs during our research time. No Homework! Enjoy Spring Break! Dr. Kraeger We had a good day in Target! The kids got off to a good start this morning with finishing their movies. We were proud of how they collaborated, problem-solved, and used flexibility to overcome obstacles! We hope you'll join us next week, March 23rd-from 8-8:20, for our Movie Premiere Party! We'll be in Room 227, next to the Music Room. The kids also worked hard on their algebraic thinking skills with more word problems. They are getting stronger with interpreting the meaning of the problems and using that information to set up and solve the equations. We stretched our creative thinking with March F2OE! Take a look at them outside in the hall! Some pretty amazing ideas! Finally, we read just a bit of our novel and will pick that back up next week with a "Ghost Mode" game of Kahoot to match wits against last year's 4th graders! We'll see which class wins the high score! HW: Edmodo Until next week, Dr. Kraeger Today was another great day in Target! We started off with a bang on our movie making! The kids are working together to wrap things up on the movie. Their collaboration is really making them so much more productive! We'll finish up next week with our Movie Premiere Party on March 23rd, at 8am. Parents are invited to attend. More details next week! Algebraic Thinking: We hit the word problems again today with GREAT success! It's exciting to see the kids understanding how to apply the algebraic skills to actual problems and solve them! Affective Skills: We continued our mindfulness practice with Mindful Minute. Check it out! Novel Study: We continued our novel reading with the kids creating a word cloud about the main character. They are SO creative! Take a look at them in the hall. We also read a couple of chapters and learned a little bit about the history and impact of the Vietnam War. This was discussed in our novel, so this mini-lesson helped the kids better understand why the character acts the way he does. The kids also answered a Padlet using their critical thinking skills. HW: Edmodo-Movie Project Update Until next week, Dr. Kraeger Whew! What a busy day we had! Unit Study: The kids started out strong using their problem solving and divergent thinking to create some fantastic scenes for our movie! They got SO much done today! The teamwork was amazing! Algebraic Thinking: We tackled word problems today. Boy was that a challenge! Applying the skills to actual problems is so much more complex than solving the basic equations. We'll keep plugging away, as the kids make progress! Affective Skills: We worked more on our dealing with Constructive Criticism today. We watched a neat video, "Water off a Duck's Back". Several of the kids made the connection immediately to how we could handle criticism. That was GREAT! We discussed useful strategies for situations when you might face criticism. Later, we continued our mindfulness practice with Anxiety Relief with Widdle the Worrier and Til the Thinker and Cloud Breathing. Novel Study: We reviewed our last chapter and continued on with The Way to Stay in Destiny. The kids are finding out more about Theo's past and what his uncle may have planned. HW: Edmodo Movie Update Until next week, Dr. Kraeger |
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