Mayflower Building

Mayflower Building
Click the link above to see a slideshow of some photos from our Mayflower building STEM project. Thanks for everyone for the hands-on help and for the materials you sent in. We had a blast!!

More Landforms

Kamryn's mountain

Skylar's island

Ben's edible Grand Canyon

Angelina's volcano

Olivia's island

Landform Presentations

Landform projects were due yesterday and today some students were able to share theirs with the class. (The rest will share tomorrow.) It appears that they enjoyed this project, so you can expect more hands-on projects like this one in the future. Here are some pics of those who presented today.

Landforms

This week in geography, we are learning about landforms. I am adding some web sites that your child can use to learn more about landforms. Today they played a concentration game with landform cards. Both cards had the picture of a particular landform, but one had the name of the landform and the other had the definition. As they played, they learned new information. After playing the game with a partner, they colored the cards.

We are also learning about Author's Purpose. There are 3 main reasons why author's write and we can remember them with the acronym PIE: persuade, inform, and entertain. Today students cut and glued a foldable into their interactive notebooks about author's purpose. Tomorrow, they will search the classroom for examples of different purposes.We also learned some rules for making the plural forms of nouns, which we also put in our interactive notebooks.