4th Grade Works on a Logic App and Internet Searches

Welcome to Connor, our 4th grade photographer!

Here are some of the students’ reflections on our day in GT:

Cristian – Today in class we saw a very short short film about going above and beyond. It also had some other ways to say above and beyond, like, “Shoot for the moon.” It was a really awesome video to watch.  I think everybody else in class enjoyed it too!     

Connor – Today we learned about a new app called zoombini. Zoombinis are very wierd blue things that like to challenge you. I recommend this to you if you like to think G.T style. But the more challenging it is the more fun it can be.

Luke – We got on four websites today and we decided if they were real or a hoax The tree octopus was a fake and one other was fake.

One other thing we did today was to look at and respond to some poetry “masterpieces.”

 

Setting Goals

Our 2nd week of GT included setting goals.  All of the grade levels will be working on going “above and beyond,” but it was important to establish what that meant for each student.  Here are some of the comments about this week’s GT classes (4th grade did not get a chance to do a collaborative blog post due to the author visit on that day):

Max (3rd grade) – We worked on understanding our mission statement when it says to go above and beyond what is expected our work.

Olivia (3rd grade) – We read a book about your brain and stretching your brain by  learning.We also learned the parts of your brain.

Odin (5th grade) – In G.T. we learned about online safety using a brainpop video and test. We also learned about going above and beyond while setting our goals. Next we worked on our final touches of our memes. After that we wrote down rules to make a utopia school. Utopia means perfect.

Adriel (5th grade) – Today in GT we learned about ethics and digital safety.

Here are some more of the memes that students created to remind everyone of our classroom expectations:

keepcalm

 

challenge

 

askthree

mistakes

 

 

 

Welcome Back!!!!

It is so great to be meeting with the 2nd-5th grades GT classes for the first time this school year!  I have missed the excitement and enthusiasm of the students while I have spent the last few weeks testing.

2nd grade is learning about structures this year, and we are beginning with animal structures. After going over the Class Mission Statement, we talked about multiple perspectives (specifically from a spider’s point of view) and read Diary of a Spider.  We are going to be getting a class tarantula for a couple of weeks so we can really learn about the uniqueness of spiders.

3rd through 5th grades on working on doing collaborative blog posts this year, so I am going to let some of the students tell you what we did this week. It was similar for all of the upper grade levels as we needed to go over our Class Mission Statement and other procedural items.

Luke: Today we unscrambled the G.T. mission statement from last year. It took us a long time because we didn’t remember it from last year. It was Our mission is to go above and beyond what is expected, to be creative, and use our talents as gifts to others so we can all accomplish our dreams.

Trent: It was fun when we got to put last years mission statement together on the smartboard.Then we watched a video on how to be safe online without giving any personal information about yourself away.

3rd grade: We wrote not safe next to questions that were not safe we also wrote safe next questions that were  safe. 

Connor: Today we learned how to make a meme. a meme is a picture used to tell a message in different ways. memes can mean lots of different things.

Katie R: We worked on some AWESOME memes of class rules, and the whole class seemed to have so much fun! I am so super ecxited for next week! I loved that we spent LOTS of time on the computers, and learned about media safety too.

The students aren’t all finished with their Class Rules Memes yet – but here is one!

Class Memes 4th Grade