In order for my 4th and 5th grade students to further understand bald eagles, we have decided to do a little project based learning with quail. You can read about the…Read more
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Lego Imagination Contest: Halloween – First Entry Arrives!
One of my super awesome 5th grade students brought in a picture Thursday of her submission to my Lego Imagination Monthly Challenge: Halloween. She has crafted a great looking scene…Read more
5th Grade Project Based Learning – Raising Quail Brainstorm List
Earlier today I posted about how my 5th grade ELP class began the thinking process of raising quail and all the things that we might need to know about keeping…Read more
5th Grade Begins Exploration of Birds(Quail)
Today in class we began our exploration into bald eagles. Well, we are in the realm. We are going to experiment with the daunting task of raising quail. We cannot…Read more
Lego Creation Challenge #9: These are going to be tough to beat!
Just received two new creations from the 20 Piece Lego Challenge that we have going on right now in my school. The pieces were in the hands of another teacher,…Read more
Lego Building Challenge Creation #8: Industrial Crane
Good work Wagner! Another teacher has joined the ranks of the Lego Challenge. A nice edition to the creative flow of our staff. The 20 pieces are in the hands…Read more
Chain Link Teamwork Challenge
I used this idea from the amazing website – http://greatsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/12/chain-link.html Today during TA my 7th graders were asked to perform the following task Chain LinkMaterials: strips of paper, roughly 1/2″ wide…Read more
5th Grade ELP Interest Inventory
Last week I shared the results from the interest inventory of my 4th grade class. Today I wanted to share the results from my 5th grade class. Much like I…Read more
Why I Love Teaching – 4th Grade Interest Inventory
This week in ELP we began to investigate what our students are interested in studying for the year. We follow a model in which we try to match our projects,…Read more
Lego Building Challenge Student #4
Here is the latest creation turned in last week by R.J. It is a racecar and here are two views so you can check out the build. Keep them coming….Read more