How did Native Americans adapt to their environments?

Over the last couple of weeks our students read, researched and wrote about the many different Native American tribes that lived in the many regions of the United States.

Students used our social studies text and the Britannica School Online to gather information about how the native tribes of their assigned region used Natural Resources to adapt to the climate, and environment in which the tribe lived. They then turned notes into sentences, then created a Google Slide Show to showcase their region. Here are some examples of their work. 

Reading

Bridges: Unit 2 Parent Letter

Math Strategies Anchor Charts

We're All Wonders

As a community building activity last week we read the book We're All Wonders  by R.J. Palaccio.

Then we created lists of character traits and other words we could use to describe ourselves. We turned this list into a creative Wonder face project. They will be on display on our lockers this week!

Being an Ally

This week during Morning Meeting and Community Building time we have been talking about what it means to be an ally. Here is some of the work we did this week:

Here are the posters we made in class to help us understand what our students do everyday to be good allies to their classmates. 

Science: Variables Update

Students tested 3 different variables during our swingers experiment. 

They asked these questions:

• What will happen if we change the angle that we swing from?
• What will happen if we change the weight of the pendulum?
• What will happen if we change the length of the swinger?

Ask your child what their results were!

Throughout our experiment we emphasized the idea that you can only change ONE variable at a time. We read about and analyzed other experiments to see if the scientist did a good job of controlling the experiment. As a final assessment we watched a Myth Busters video about protecting sneezes and analyzed how this experiment was conducted.