Hello Readers,
I know I have not written a post for a very long time. It was not because there wasn't anything exciting happening in the classroom, but mostly about the teacher( me) becoming too busy( or lazy) to fill you in. So..... here it is!
The year started with the 5th graders learning more about themselves and their personality types, learning style, motivation, and leadership style. They took short mini-tests that gave them insight into themselves. We are just finishing this unit.
Our next unit will be about energy consumption. We will be doing an energy audit of Lincoln Elementary and learning about what equipment uses the most energy, what phantom load means, and then how we can reduce the energy consumption in the school. This is a unit that was designed at UNI so our results of the Iowa School Energy Challenge will be reported back to them.
The sixth graders have been bouncing back and forth between two projects. One involves reading the book, " Here Lies Linc", which is a book written by an Iowa author that discusses the famous Black Angel statue in Iowa City. The other topic has been rocketry. We have been discussing aviation pioneers, the Apollo program, and the space shuttle accidents. We will start building our own rockets very soon.
