Week of December 15-19

Class 5a completed our first engineering design challenge.  We had to build a bridge strong enough to hold 100 pennies out of 1 sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper.  The engineers worked very well together, and all were successful.
Class 5b had our last class come to play our carnival games.  Next week, we will try the paper bridge challenge.
No hw this week!

In 4th grade, our ELA students joined the classes, and we entered the world of engineering.  Our design challenge was to create a tower at least one foot tall that could hold up our stuffed animal cow for at least 10 seconds.  We could use 100 index cards, two feet of tape, and our creativity.  This challenge proved to be quite difficult, but we did have some successful groups.  At the end of the challenge, the groups shared their successes and failures, and we all had ideas of how we could improve our towers in the future.  Check out some of our towers below:

HW: enjoy the break!



In third grade, we turned in our floor plans and cost sheets for our shore houses.  I was so impressed with the creativity and effort that everyone put into their projects!  We also learned how to solve matrix logic problems, and 3c enjoyed figuring out some stories with holes.  After the break, we will embark on our engineering unit!
HW: enjoy the break!