Week of December 4

Expedition: Students this week worked through their simulation. We are building colonies, trading, and expanding our land base. Students are working collaboratively and so engaged. In math, we are dividing decimals. In reading workshop, we are learning how to paraphrase and annotate text. All students read an article. With the help of a rubric students guided their learning by finding a main idea, supporting details, and a summary. All students were asked to quote accurately from the text and give a minute long discussion on the gist of their text. We started a "Passion" time, which we will have each Friday. Other names for this include "Genius Hour" or "20% time". The students and I read, "What Do You Do With An Idea?" and talked about essential questions. We looked at Blooms Taxonomy as a guide to what I expect of them. More synthesizing and analyzing. For more information look at, What is Genius Hour? We ended the week with a Malala party discussing peace.