Week of 9/23... I know... so sorry!

We did so many great things and I hate that I'm slacking on sharing them with you! Hopefully, your kiddo is able to talk about what we're doing and share these great things with you. In homeroom this week, we watched Greta Thunberg speak to the U.N. If you aren't aware, she is a 16 year old girl from Sweden that is very passionate about climate change. This led us to create our own passion projects! What is your kiddo's passion?

In our academic block, one thing we've been working on is writing short narratives about a small moment. This week, we hired editors to help us to revise our work and also were hired as editors ourselves. We had specific talents we were hired for and looked for certain characteristics in each others' writing. We even got paid for our work! Today, we got our own work back and are using the editing ideas from our editors to create our final draft.
Another thing we've been doing is with weathering and erosion. Using the design thinking process, we have researched and created possible solutions to reduce erosion. Toward the end of the week, we build models to simulate this erosion to see if our solutions would be plausible. On Monday, we are going to upload videos of these simulations to flipgrid so that we can then assess their sustainability.

In math, we continued our work with using algorithms to solve multi-digit multiplication and division problems. We played games and practiced and today worked on a review packet for all of the different skills. Most were able to check with me but for those that didn't finish, they should finish this weekend and submit it on canvas so I can correct their mistakes if needed. We'll take our post-test on Monday.

There were so many little things, I'm sure, that I have left out. My goal is to blog every day next week... fingers crossed! :)