February
2017
Dear Parents,
We enjoyed meeting
many of our new parents at the Orientation meeting! If you weren’t able to
attend the meeting and would like the PowerPoint presentation, please let us
know. We’ll be happy to send it to you.
Our 1st
grade Target students have had a great start! We have been working on building
a Target community which includes recognizing individual strengths and
weaknesses, listening to the input of others and taking shared responsibility
for group activities. They are doing such an amazing job with our STEM
activities. I think we have some future engineers in this group!
Speaking of future
engineers, our fifth graders are working very hard on Inventure! Inventure is
an annual STEM competition sponsored by Georgia Tech. We are entering the
planning and creating phase of the engineering design process. Be on the
lookout for information about our local competition on February 15th,
where you will have the opportunity to see your child’s project on display!
Tuesdays have been
very dramatic! Our 4th grade students have embraced the ‘Reinventing
Shakespeare: Problem Based Learning’ unit. They showcased their individual
strengths during the Shakespeare Tic-Tac-Toe project. Thanks for your support
in helping ensure the projects were completed and turned in on time. We have
been honing our divergent thinking skills through Tableaux. A Tableaux is a group of models or motionless figures
representing a scene. Shakespeare was a master at the mannequin challenge!
2nd and 3rd
grade students are about to begin our cubism unit. Part of the cubism unit
involves practicing visual-spatial skills through solving the Rubik’s
cube. If you happen to have a Rubik’s
cube lying around, we would love to borrow it!
Genius Hour presentations
for will be due the weeks of April 17th, 24th and May 8th.
Letters and calendars for Genius Hour will be going home for 3rd and
4th grades soon. 1st and 2nd graders will be
doing Genius Hour Jr. Their letters will go home at a later date.
As always, if you have
any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Thanks for your support,Mrs. Parsons and Mrs. Sanders
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