Alright, so we have learned about Christopher Columbus and Juan Ponce de Leon. Time to break out the “Discoverin’ America” song. We will be learning about Jacques Cartier and Christopher Newport over the next couple days, but this song is too good to hold back until then! If you can memorize the lyrics of this song and sing with the music you will earn a $500 bonus!!
Discovering America from Tyler Hart on Vimeo.
We had an amazing time on our field trip to the Mariners Museum today! The first great thing we got to experience was riding on the big commercial buses. Every year, it is a highlight for the students. Once we got to the museum, we split up into four groups, and the docents took us around to four different areas: Life at Sea, Christopher Columbus, After Columbus, and a Map Activity. The students were really engaged for all 4 of the 30-minute stations. After we went through our 4 stations, the students were able to go on a self-guided tour with their chaperones before finishing up at lunch.
One of my favorite parts about this year’s field trip was that each of our groups carried an iPad around with them. Throughout the entire trip, each group needed to post the different things they had learned to our class Edmodo page. It was really neat to see how each group learned and took away a little something different from each of the same stations. There were a few spotty places with the WiFi connection at the museum, but overall it worked great. This will definitely be something I will continue to do with future field trips if our destination has WiFi connection. The students were really interested in making sure they got something out of each session, so they could have something to share with the class!
Enjoy checking out our trip!
Mariners Museum Field Trip from Tyler Hart on Vimeo.
For the past few months we have working really hard on practicing for our harmonica concert! March 20th was performance day, and we rocked it! Here’s are a few pictures from our big event!
Jacob made us a Video Story Problem for Science! Can you figure out the answers?
Incline Plane Investigation from Tyler Hart on Vimeo.
Grayson mixed it up on us with this VSP! Time to break out your creativity and solve this problem for Grayson and his brother!
Video Story Problem #12 from Tyler Hart on Vimeo.
Pranav took a trip to Martins and made us a new Video Story Problem! Make sure you listen carefully to get all the information you will need to solve the problem!
Video Story Problem #11 from Tyler Hart on Vimeo.
The baton has been passed! My students are now making VSPs on their own for the class! Here is Darby’s first Video Story Problem! Great Job Darby! Can you solve her problem and come up with a different word problem for her video? Good Luck!
Every Wednesday, James and Aaron, two students from Tucker High School, come in and teach us Spanish. We have learned all sorts of things from greetings, colors, numbers, and more! Today we learned about how to say different animals. The guys had a fun interactive powerpoint and concentration game to help us learn. We had such a fun time with them today! We can’t wait until next week to see what they have in store for us!
Tonight for Homework:
Click the link below and listen to The Crowded House again. Re-Read your part over and over and over! Practice makes perfect. We will be filming our play on, so you will need to know your part perfectly!
We sure struggled a little bit to figure out the answer to the Video Story Problem #9. I’ll chalk it up to being the end of the day. Now that we have discussed how to figure it out, check out and solve the new VSP 9.1!