Earth Movie

After our trip to the theater, Alexa and Alex wrote up a movie review. Also the classes created posters of what it would be like to travel with those animals and what items might be needed. Plus a few students wore Earth Day shirts for our trip. Check them out!!

Einstein Club Winners!!!!

This week we also had our third Einstein Club lunch. Each week the class takes a science test based on the activities and vocabulary. The scores are totaled at the end of the nine weeks and the Top 5 students from both classes is invited to eat lunch with us and they get a special treat, Chick-Fil-A. This nine weeks Alexa, Elena, Laityn, Hannah, Kaylea, Daulton, Alex, Sonny, Breon and Michael joined us for lunch. We have one more nine weeks to go and we can't wait to see who will join us next.

Civil War and Poetry

This week the class was working on two different activities. In Social Studies we are studying the Civil War and they were to make a chart listing each sides advantages and disadvantages. After class discussions and group work, many of the groups realized that one side had significantly more advantages. Also this week we continued our Poetry unit and they were able to create a free verse poem. This poem was to be made up of 4 stanzas totalying 8 lines and they were to rhyme each line. Once they completed their poem, they were to illustrate them.

We are off to the movies....

On Wednesday, April 22nd, Earth Day we are going to watch the Disney "Planet Earth" movie at the Beacon. The movie follows Polar Bears, African Elephants and Humpback Whales for a year. Since it is opening on Earth Day, Disney is going to help out the environment by planting a tree for each ticket purchased. We are very excited to be able to enjoy the movie along with helping out the environment. The pictures above are triple venn diagrams comparing the three animal groups. As a class we watched the movie trailer and explored the website then the groups completed their triple venns. The groups were able to come up with a variety of details comparing the groups. Keep checking back for other activities!!