Catal Huyuk

We started a new chapter in Social Studies about early communities. We learned about a town called Catal Huyuk that was forgotten about for thousands of years. We also learned about how prehistoric people often lived in caves as opposed to building houses because they had to move around so often. Above a few groups of students decided to build 3 dimensional models of what the community of Catal Huyuk looked like. We learned that they entered the homes through holes in roofs and not doors. Below groups made drawings that may have been found on the cave walls where prehistoric people lived.

Foul Shooting Game

We have been working on constructing and analyzing graphs in math class. We played a "foul-shooting" game with a team of four people. First, each child had the opportunity to shoot 25 foul shoots while the rest of the team made a tally chart of how many went in. Once the whole group had their turn up to the "basket," they were asked to make a line plot and a bar graph. After they did that, they created and answered questions that went along with their graphs.

Bird Beak Simulations

We are working on animals in science. We have specifically been learning about adaptations. Today in class we were pretending to be three different types of birds with different shaped beaks. We used a knife, spoon, and chopsticks to model different shapes of beaks. We searched for "food" that was rice, pinto beans, and lima beans. It was hysterical to watch the kids try to work the chopsticks! We learned that the "spoon beak" was the most efficient due to the scooping nature and that the chopsticks didnt get us a whole lot of food. We thought this might also be partly because we dont know how to use them! All in all we had a great time experimenting with different shaped beaks. Posted are pictures of the children trying to scoop up food with their "beaks."

Family Turkey Projects

Bob Turkey

Our first family project was a Turkey Project. This was meant to be a fun time to spend with family members to use creativity to give a turkey a personality. They turned out great! We hope you enjoyed spending time with your family for something fun!
Medusa
Hokie Bird
Google
Zebra Turkey
Turcea
Mother Turkey and Chickees


Camo-Turkey
Turkey Tebow
Candy Turkey
Gameopolis Turkey
Rapunzel
Argentina Turkey Soccer Player
Multi-colored turkey
Fred the Singing Turkey
Jax Beach Turkey
Snurkey the Red Baron
Turkey Burglar
Mickey the Turkey
Native Turkey
Jaguar
Izzy Jr.
Turk the Hockey Fan
Firely Fireman
Gobblescout Pete
Crayola Crayon Turkey
Football Turkey #9
Ozzy Ozbourne Turkey
Jackson DeTurkey
Turkella Deville

Invent a world

We did an enrichment activity called Invent a World. We paired the kids up and they were to draw a world that would have things on it they would be interested in. They added landforms, bodies of water, towns, and other interesting tidbits to their world. When finished they created a key on it so we would know what we were looking at. Each team got to share their world with the rest of the class. Featured on this blog is the work of Lily and George, Caroline and Naiya, and Max and Nick.