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!

Student Blogger

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!