Wednesday

Hi parents,

We had a great day today! But before I go into that, I wanted to thank you all for taking the time to talk with your children about the Magnet Invention project! The students came into class this morning excitedly talking about the ideas they'd discussed with you. I was happy to see that everyone seemed to have a much clearer understanding of what they're going to build, and from what I've heard, the ideas all seemed pretty feasible too.

We will probably start building the inventions next week. In the mean time, if you have any cardboard you were planning to recycle, please consider donating it to the class! 

This morning, the students worked on their "Polymon" handbooks. I forgot to mention this in the blog yesterday, because there was no blog, but the students have started to design little creatures based on 2D and 3D shapes. They have put their creations in their own handbooks. Polymon are very similar to Pokemon, but with a polygon twist. Students must identify attributes (vertices, sides, faces, etc.) for each 'Polymon', and also write a bit about its special powers. So far they've been doing an amazing job of this!

We had a lot of work period time this morning too.

In the afternoon, we had Daily 5, Music, and more work period.

Please remember to send back your field trip forms as soon as you can! And if you are interested in volunteering, please let me know by email, or through the field trip forms.

Have a nice night,

Zac

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Basically sums up the work we've done this week. BONUS HOMEWORK: What material could Magnemite be made of?  (3 possible answers)