Planned by students

Morning meeting today was planned by Mohamed with a little assistance from Aaron and Nick K. We shared our favorite video game (shocker!) and I went first sharing that if my girls make me play something, I like Mario Kart but when I was growing up, it was Super Mario Brothers 3 (on the original Nintendo) but I also shared that Frogger and Donkey Kong on the Atari was what I liked to play when I was in elementary school. We ended up having a nice discussion about the evolution of games and how I appreciated that no one said, "Grand Theft Auto." :) Then, we played the game, Alibi.

There were so many interruptions due to the 6th grade MAP tests and I wasn't able to check in with the 5th graders to find out what they were working on. Please ask your kiddo what they did with Mrs. Tanner...did they continue with their Time Magazine's Person of the Year article? Did they work with sound? In Math, Mrs. Kelly's class kept working on the Exemplar from yesterday and in Mrs. Tanner's class, they worked on a ratio problem.

In 4th grade, we completed the entire design thinking process in an hour. Usually, this takes a lot more time than that but today's lesson was designed to show the students the entire process. We realized that the majority of the process is focused on THINKING. They enjoy the creating of the process but they need to spend most of their time with thinking. We also discussed the article we read yesterday about a kid inventor. (It was good-ask your student about it.) In math, the kiddos in my room played a round of Mrs. L says to review the vocabulary we learned yesterday and then we applied that understanding to describe shapes/polygons. We completed math by writing acrostic, shape, diamante and limerick poetry about the shapes.

Our day concluded with reading UNgifted. Today, we learned that the teachers at the Academy do not see how Donovan was accepted in...as they have no clue where his strengths are, although they have found many weaknesses.