Monday 5.6.19: Ryan
On Monday, some students finished up their speeches in Mr. Greenberg’s class. Some of these were about cancer research and homelessness. There were also two students giving feedback to each presenter. In Mr. Gornto’s class, we discussed the Giver and the previous week’s readings. We also completed a log entry. In Mrs. Bruvik’s class, we read articles about baseball bats and strategies to help the environment. Some of us worked in groups to complete this.
Tuesday 5.7.19: Ryan
In Mrs. Bruvik’s, we continued our work in the science articles. In Greenberg, we discussed the problem with Koalas in Australia. They are underpopulated, and we went over some different maps to figure out how and why. We also went over some examples of words that we thought when we thought of Australia. Some of these included Crikey, Steve Irwin, and crocodiles. In Mr. Gornto’s class, we presented our Giver images. We had to find an image that, abstractavely, connected to the theme of the book. One example is this orange in a sea of apples.
Wednesday 5.8.19: Charlie
In Quest Humanities on Wednesday, (Mr. Greenberg’s class) we had to figure out where Koalas live in Australia. The activity called for a group of four people. Each group had to trace four maps of Australia. The individual maps were based on the rainfall, temperature, forestation, and geography. After the groups were done with that they tapped the maps together, and where everything would match up is where the Koalas live.
In Mr. Gornto’s class, we highlighted our literature circle essays, and discussed them individually with Mr. Gornto. There were four highlighting colors: Blue was for essay analysis, Green was for text evidence, Yellow was for your essay focus, and Pink was for spelling errors.
In Ms. Bruvik’s class, we finished watching a movie on Sir Isaac Newton. The documentary was on Newton’s life and his greatest accomplishments. After that was over we filled out a worksheet about the upcoming global challenge.
Thursday 5.9.19: Nick J
In Mr. Gornto’s class, we highlighted key parts in our essay while we waited to conference with Mr. Gornto about it. In the conference, he reread our essay, we discussed it with him, and told us what we could improve on. In science, we did the Bubble Gum Lab. In this lab, we were chewing bubble gum and saw how many chews we could get in 30 seconds. Then we graphed it to see how many more chews we could get each time. In Mr. Greenberg’s class, we did the did Koala mapping. We traced certain maps on wax paper about topics such as the rainfall, temperature, or physical landforms in Australia. Then, we put all of them together to see where in Australia the Koalas lived.
Friday 5.10.19: Nick J
In Mr. Gornto’s class, we finished the up the essay conferences. After that, we got assigned a short story reading assignment. This story was named “The Lottery.” It was about a utopian society with a dark secret… Every year they would go through an event called The Lottery. One citizen would be chosen to be put to death.
Finally, in science, we wrote a short response about some questions regarding Sir Isaac Newton. One of these responses was, “Make a case about why you think that Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest scientists ever.” After watching a short movie about Isaac Newton’s life we answered the questions in class. In Mr. Greenberg’s class we started working on our thematic map project. We would choose a topic that we were interested in, and then chose a map that related to that topic. One student’s map was about the child mortality rate in India in 2015, another was about marine pollution, and yet another displayed asthma rates by city in the United States.
By Ryan, Nick, and Charlie
Proofread by: Laurence, Dhru, Sonia