4th-graders in math class designed and built mini-golf courses. They learned math concepts like angles, lines, area, and perimeter. They applied this to their golf courses. They also looked at golf clubs and predicted how the angle of the club affected the placement of the golf ball.
5th grade ELA students wrote mini-sagas for Young Writers. The challenge was writing a min-saga about an ancient adventure in 100 words. The word choice was crucial in writing a creative and captivating mini-saga. Some students submitted their work in a contest.
4th grade ELA students became playwrights! They learned about play elements and wrote their own plays. The plays ranged from a daring rescue of animals from a shelter to an evil villain who steals a valuable gem from the White House. There were so many creative ideas! Here are some pictures of the characters and their props. They did a great job!
Some 5th-grade students are isolating their sense of touch with a tactile box as they continue to learn about synesthesia in their A Magno-Shaped Space book group.
