As a final project after studying European Explorers we made figures of Christopher Columbus, Juan Ponce de Leon, Jacques Cartier, and Christopher Newport. We added all our knowledge about characteristics of explorers, their sponsoring country, reason for exploring, accomplishments, and where they landed. We love to make crafts and had a blast sharing our knowledge.

What other explorers were important to the discovery of America? Why?

After our geometry unit, we made geometric figures in the CAVE. Our figures had to have 5 plane shapes, 3 solid shapes, 2 moving parts and had to stand for 5 seconds. Here is a video of what we constructed. Enjoy our creative geometric figure engineering!

We are learning about European Explorers- Christopher Columbus, Juan Ponce de Leon, Jacques Cartier, and Christopher Newport. It’s time to learn the “Discoverin’ America” song. If you can memorize the lyrics of this song and sing with the music you will earn a 2 good behavior coupon bonus!!

Diksha wrote her biography report on Rosa Parks. What is Rosa Parks known for? How do you think she felt when she was asked to go to the back of the bus? How did Rosa Parks stand up for civil rights?

We had a “sweet” time on Valentine’s Day having our Multiplication Ice Cream Celebration. Thanks to all the parents who helped donate items or serve ice cream. We all worked hard to learn our multiplication facts to 12 and became Mighty Multipliers. What strategy helped you learn your facts the most?

We made a human clock in class! A shorter person – Harrison- was the hour hand and a taller person – Lucas- was the minute hand. We showed various times on our human clock.
If we started this activity at 8:30 and worked on it until 9:30. How much time did we work on the human clock activity?