Week of May 15-19

This week, the 3rd graders went on an awesome field trip to Ohmsett, an oil spill response research and renewable energy test facility (http://ohmsett.com/). We got to see real oil spill equipment, like booms and skimmers, in action! We learned that people from all over the country come to Ohmsett to test their oil spill cleanup equipment and to be trained on how to respond to an oil spill.

In 4th grade, we shared the sonnets we worked on over the course of the week. You can see an example below. We also started to discuss the role of a director in plays and movies. The students will take turns directing their classmates in the first scene of Macbeth. It will be interesting to see how the same scene can turn out differently depending on decisions made by the director.

Sonnet by Angelina

The 5th graders delivered their intro to their TED Talks and received feeback from their classmates on how to make it the best it can be. Next, we are working on the body of our speech, using our research to teach our audience about our topics.