On Monday, I will be sending out Scholastic Book orders. Included in the book orders will be an additional paper that shows how to order online. You click on the website from here and the code you will be asked to enter: GPY4P. I have put the due date October 23rd. If you have any questions, feel free to email me.
Last week, we finished our study of the Native Americans and we have moved towards the explorers such as Christopher Columbus. This is always an exciting time because this portion of our history is always a fascinating one. Students learn about many brave explorers but this bravery often cost a price to others. This also means in the next week, we will begin participating in our colonization simulation. We will do an introductory survey and begin discussing how the simulation works. Tomorrow, we will view a movie the movie "Who Really Discovered America?" This was a two hour movie on the History Channel in which they discuss other possible explorers who who landed in the Americas first.
In math, students went outside to see how fast they could throw a ball. We gathered a set of data to use to study minimum, maximum, mode, median, range, and mean (average). Each child threw a ball three times. Today, we discussed all the ways we could use this data. Students wanted to find out information such as who threw the fastest and least fastest, which pitch was the classroom's fastest pitch, and the average speed for the group and individuals. They discussed how they could represent this data such as bar graphs and pie graphs. I'm very excited about this study. It's going to be fascinating seeing the different ways information can be represented.
I will write again soon with more details into our other studies.
Thanks,
Scott
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