5th Grade Meets “Cornelius” the Corn Snake

Mahli is this week’s awesome blogger for 5th grade, and Billy took the pictures.

Today in G.T we explored our knowledge. We wrote an article about ourselves in TIME magazine. We got to create our future with paper and a pencil. Later, while some people were having genius hour others were having free time in BOSS HQ. In BOSS HQ we got to play with things like the Makey Makey. After that, the class got to play with a corn snake. Cornelius to be exact. To end our day we made comic strips out of inspirational quotes. We only have 3 more G.T days left, and maybe that’s not enough time to change the world, or the city,or the school, but it might just be enough time to change ourselves and accept our neighbors. As long as we still have 3 more days of Mrs. Eichholz anything is possible.

Goodbye, Jeffrey. Hello, Scully!

If you know a 4th grade GT student, you probably have already gotten the news.  Our tarantula, Jeffrey, went back to Region 20 today.  In his place, we are borrowing a ball python named Scully.  You can see some of the pictures of Scully taken by our class photographers (Deuce, Richard, and Emmett) below.

Scully appears to be close to shedding his skin, so that should be an interesting experience for the students!

Despite the excitement about our temporary new addition, we were still able to get some work done today.  The students continued to learn to identify different types of figurative language in Tuck Everlasting by adding examples to this “Padlet” using the iPads.  They also worked on Hands-On-Equations, and more coding with the Kodable Pro app.

We have the good fortune of being able to test Kodable Sync right now, which allows the students to use any iPad with Kodable Pro to continue through the Kodable levels.  If you have Kodable Pro at home, let me know, and I will set you up with the Sync account there, too.  (Our entire family spent the evening playing Kodable Pro the other night – so I can attest that it appeals to many age levels!)