Sewing

Today's life skill/genius hour activity was sewing! Many students, including boys, chose to learn how to sew-which was very cool to see! Others chose to practice keyboarding skills. Both great life skills!

After special, in morning meeting, we shared our favorite holiday movies and then played, "The Wright Family." This was a fun game of passing an object left and right. Ask your kid if they ended up with a blow pop! Then, we read, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg. This book has many mysterious elements and we really enjoyed reading it. Also, it lent itself to allow us to write some really creative and cool stories that go along with the amazing illustrations. We also worked on some vocabulary associated with mysteries and mysterious elements in literature. In Social Studies/Science, 5th grade kiddos used feedback from their peers to revise their landform games and 4th grade kiddos completed their investigation on which insulation was the best material. In math, 4th graders continued with measurement conversions and 5th graders continued with fractions and solving word problems. Recess was freezing! (Make sure kiddos have hats and gloves!) We are really enjoying our genius hour-ish time at the end of the day. I think we are making the most of learning life skills these past weeks.