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.