Student Awards

Students decided to give out personal awards to their favorite books.  They represented their favorite book with a poster.  They worked so hard to make sure their poster was QUALITY and carefully chose a book that was deserving of their award.

Here are the awards:

Exploration Celebration

On April 10th LEADS students had their Exploration Celebration.  This is a night where families were invited to view our projects, enjoy supper, and attend our Spring Concert.  Here is a video of our Exploration Celebration.  We were so proud to share our work with you!

Early April

April has been such a busy month!
During our Quiet Choice Time, Makenna created a painted puzzle for us to put together (it was very challenging!).

After going through our folders and choosing a piece to edit and revise, we published our books.  They made for great reading material.

Each child recorded their own "blurb on the back" of the book to hook their readers.

We also earned a pizza party!  Of course, first we needed to do a survey to see what kind of pizzas to order.

Congratulations, Room 408!

Preparing for our Celebration & Pizza Party!

We put the finishing touches on our publishing books today to get ready for the upcoming Exploration Celebration.

We added our QR code blurbs.

Our Reading Workshop was reading each other's authored books.

We scanned the Croak.it QR code blurb before we read the book.

So many good books to choose from!

We also had our pizza party! YUM!

Of course I had to take a survey to determine what kind of pizzas to order...

What a great Friday.  Have a wonderful weekend!

Happy 80th Birthday, Jane Goodall!

A Rare Sunny Day: We Can Do a Shadow Inquiry!

Today we spent our whole day doing science and investigating light and shadows at different times of the day.  I knew this might be the last sunny day before we get our ice and snow on Thursday and Friday.  :(

We went outside four times on this beautifully sunny day to record shadows.

We marked a specific spot to record all day long.  We held a popsicle stick on that spot and traced the shadow with sidewalk chalk.

We noticed how the shadow changed each time we recorded the data.  Maddy even started wondering about connecting the experiment to our schema and learning....she remarked, "I think this is like a clock!"  I'm thinking it's time to further our inquiry on time!

We also took pictures of our shadows.

When we got back inside the classroom we used the Book Creator app to record the time, a shadow photo, and a sentence each time we did our observation.

When we have revised and edited our books on Book Creator, we will be able to export them to our ibooks bookshelf and we can read each other's books!  We will even be able to email the book for others to read.

Tomorrow we will be studying our data and figure out, explain, and record why the shadows changed throughout the day.

What was most surprising about your shadow observations?

Officer Grignon: AKA, Logan K.'s Dad

For Sharing this morning during Morning Meeting Logan brought....his dad!  Logan's dad is a police officer on the Menominee Indian Reservation.

He was able to share lots of tools that he uses to help keep everyone safe.

I have never seen them so focused and attentive!

He uses sound waves to hear the dispatcher.

He carries lots of tools with him like a gun, taser, handcuffs, a knife, and pepper spray.

He uses a flashlight (light waves!) to see at night.

The kids especially loved the taser and the sound it made.

Thank you for sharing your time with us, Officer Grignon!

What was the most interesting thing you learned about police officers?