I am very proud of the students’ efforts and support for each other as they participated in the GeoBee last week! Nice work! To all of you....may your love of geography and learning about your big, glorious world continue and this be just the beginning of a wonderful journey for each of you! -Mrs. B.
This is a guest post from our enrichment teacher, Darcie Rankin and our library media specialist, Beth Redford.
Fourth graders at RES are continuing to wrap up a unit on media literacy. They learned about several strategies that advertisers use to get people's attention and convince them to buy products. Then they practiced finding those strategies in different kinds of advertisements. Finally, the scholars created video advertisements for books, also known as book trailers, to try to convince other scholars to read their favorite stories. Here are two more great examples, from a fourth graders who used the advertising strategies of Intensity, Plain Folks, Fear (to get the viewer's attention), and Repetition in their book trailers for Smile by Raina Telgemeier and The Time of the Fireflies by Kimberley Griffiths Little.
And a behind the scenes note: these scholars used the "app smashing" technique of using more than one application on a digital device to create a single final product. The fourth graders used the iMovie, Green Screen, Camera, and Notes apps together make these amazing videos!
Today our school got together to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Kindergarteners presented a song to us and we watched a short film about his life and legacy. Here are some of our thoughts - ways we all believe we can continue his work and make the world a better place.
Spend a whole day with Great Grandma
Give money and food to the food shelf, help anyone who needs help with anything, and make Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. happy because of what we did!
Donate money to save animals and do anything we can for any living thing that will make life great
Watch my twin siblings for at least 45 minutes to give my parents a break!
Donate to the Food Shelf
Help my dad with his projects
Stop fights, give money to the shelter and food to the homeless
Help my brother build a fort, and help my old neighbor with his garden in the spring
Me and my mom can go to the grocery store and buy new food and donate it to the Richmond Food Shelf
I could cook for somebody who needs food and then donate food to the Richmond Food Shelf
Donate food to a food shelf that could help other people
I would want to help my brother whenever he struggles
Give food to a food shelf
Cook meals for the hungry
We hope that everyone has a nice long weekend and uses the extra day to do something extra nice for someone else. Thank you!
Great work, Malia! You not only found out how many ribs a person has, but you showed the lungs and the spine in a pretty creative model! On Monday our class will earn Open Gym Time! Woo Hoo! Keep up the good work!
Today our class tested our Elastic Band Rollers by trying to find the "sweet spot" on a race track in the classroom! We had to figure out just the right amount of winds to store just the right amount of energy to make the roller move forward but stop in the sweet spot! Some of the rollers were better behaved than others, and like all true scientists, we had to have patience (and a little bit of humor, too!) Some rollers went quite well, while others went in circles, did some "breakdancing", or just sat there... (wah, wah.....) :)
Our class has started its next science unit! To begin....today we investigated energy and how things move. What makes things move? Electricity, food, fuel, and what else? Cooking oil? Sugar? Chocolate????
How does a wind up toy work? What gives it the energy to move forward, or bounce, or shuffle, or wiggle, or flip? Kids were challenged to draw a cross section of the inside of one of the toys, showing how it worked......
The puzzle is finished! I'm so proud of the puzzlers in our class! Finishing this puzzle represents some true dedication, follow-through, teamwork, and friendship....true right down to the last piece (which was missing until this morning! Great find, Ben!)
Well done, Kids!
