June 8-12, 2009
Last week of school.
Third grade will finish up their thinking skills lesson.
Fourth grade will complete their birthday party unit.
Fifth grade will continue their work in Hands On Equations book three.
June 1- 5, 2009
Third grade AIG made their own game calle Equato.
Fourthg grade AIG continued to work on Hands On Equations book two and their
birthday party at a theme park unit.
Fifth grade AIG is continuing their work on Hands On Equations book three.
May 26-29, 2009 Remediation groups and EOG retesting
May 18- 22, 2009 EOG testing and remediation groups
Fifth grade vacation packets due on the 22nd.
May 11-15, 2009
Third grade AIG used their individual learning profiles to decide which type
of thinking is their strongest. Students were divided into four groups (one
for each type of thinking). Each group is developing a lesson that will
teach their classmates on a type of thinking.
Fourth Grade AIG is finishing up their unit on codes.
Fifth Grade AIG is working on their summer vacation plans. These are due on
May 22nd.
May 4-8, 2009
Third grade AIG is finishing up their study of evaluative thinking. The
students will then review each of the four types of thinking and develop
their own learning profile.
Fourth grade AIG is continuting to break codes.
Fifth grade AIG will be spending the next two weeks working on a plan for
their summer vacation. The students can work on this project at home as well
as in the AIG classroom. Hands On Equations lessons will resume after EOGs.
April 27- May 1, 2009
Third grade AIG is working on evaluative thinking. This week we developed an
evaluation grid to use to find out which brand of potato chips to buy. It
was great fun tasting all of those chips.
Fourth grade AIG is working hard at breaking codes. The students have been
divided into teams. Each team developed their own secret code. The teams
then wrote a limerick in their code. Now each team has the job of breaking
all the other teams' codes.
Fifth grade AIG is studying algebra using Hands On Equations book number
three. Students are beginning to use negative numbers in simple algebraic
equations.
