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In P.E. we started lacrosse. We can not start games yet since some people still need to learn!

Math Class Input Output Tables

In class today we spent more time working with input and output tables. We began by reading "Two of Everything" to extend the idea of input-rule-output. Feel free to read the fable below and then check out some of the students "Magic Pot" creations!

Final Pi Day Activities

The 9th and 10th Age students were challenged with memorizing the first 10 digits of Pi. If over 100 students accomplished this task, the top memorizers would toss a "Pi-E" at our lower school headmaster. The students went above and beyond, with 130 students memorizing 10 or more digits. All of the classes had fun watching the Pi-E tossing yesterday!

Additional kudos goes out to our class's top Pi memorizer! Way to go!
Enjoy the two videos of our final Pi Day events.

Google Documents

We have continued to work with our Google Document in reading class. Below is a video of the students working together to edit it. The students also used the "chat" feature of the document to determine which vocabulary words each pair was locating. Terrific work!

Pi Day

We had several exciting Pi Day activities for March 14th (3.14). Here is a video of some of the activities completed in math class. We made bracelets identifying the digits of Pi and used compasses to identify the relationship between the diameter of a circle, Pi, and the circle's circumference. Today brings our final activities, check back later for more!

Socrates Presentation

What is the difference between knowing and believing?

Is it better to know that you do not know, or to know that you know, even if you do not know?

These tricky questions were part of our wonderful Socrates Presentation given by a Goucher Professor. We really appreciate his thoughful words, and look forward to asking open-ended questions to become philosophers (lovers of knowlege) in our daily lives. Below are some of our Socratic musings, as well as a thank you for our special guest.

Egg Drop Project

The students have completed their egg drop challenge. The first step involved building a shoe box creation to prevent an egg from breaking after a fall from the balcony in the girls' gym. Then the boys began work on a Pivot digital animation depicting their building process and the egg's fall. Here is a short video documenting the egg drop and some of the first stages of the Pivot creations. Great job, gentlemen!

Geography Asia Unit

Today we spent time on the National Geographic Interactive Map Maker site to introduce Asia, our March continent. We also worked together on making a GIANT map of Asia together (using Map Maker). We have completed the first 2 rows, with 5 more rows to go. I'll post a picture as soon as we finish!

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One of the compositions that we have finished writing is A Letter to Roxanna, Alexander the Great's wife. Another composition that we are doing is writing about Giant Pandas.The last composition we are doing is talking about the egg drop on the girls' gym balcony. Sadly, my egg did not survive. After the great big Egg Drop,we had science. Science is one of my favorite subjects. After science, we have recess.

Iditarod Sled Race

We are following the Iditarod Race Online in reading class this week as well as reading Akiak, the tale of a brave sled dog during the Iditarod race. Each student is cheering for a musher and his or her team to arrive in Nome safely!

 

Digital Citizenship "Think Before You Type"

We spent time today discussing digital citizenship. We determined that there are certain rules, "netiquette", which we should always follow online. We created our classroom's digital citizenship rules, displayed in the wordle to the right, then wrote them on the Educreation applications on the ipad to make this short video.

Please take the time to review these at home with your son.

Fly Prezi Presentations

In preparation for our "When I was a Fly" composition, the boys took photographs of three places that they would visit during their fly travels. The boys then uploaded the pictures and created Prezi presentations, mimicking the flight of the fly. We will begin presenting these Prezis in class this week.  Below are the first three presentations of the week.
Terrific job, gentlemen!

History Prezi Presentation

Here is a Prezi which covers some of the concepts for our upcoming history test.

Reading Class Illustrations

As we read through Island of the Blue Dolphins, the students have illustrated different scenes that we have read. Below are three students' works of art, created after pivotal scenes in our novel.



March Reading Madness

Today we joined the entire lower school in the auditorium for an assembly to kick off March Reading Madness. This was very exciting, and many of the boys were eager to begin their reading as soon as 3:00 struck! Below is a short video of the assembly.

 Happy Reading!

Multiplication Fact Quizes

We have spent lots of time working to understand why multiplication works, but it is also important for us to practice our facts so that we are able to quickly recall them while solving problems.

Below is an online fact quiz that we will be working with today to give us an idea of which facts we are comfortable with, and which ones we need to practice more frequently. Feel free to try it at home!

Online Multiplication Fact Quiz