The Peppermint Challlenge

Monday, December 14, 2015

We took a break from our sound unit to do a little STEM activity (science, technology, engineering, and math) which served as a great team builder as well. Students needed to cooperate and collaborate to build not only the TALLEST tower possible with the materials they were given, but it also had to support three stacked peppermints. It was a GREAT TIME!

Algebra is in Full Swing

Wednesday, December 09, 2015

As a team, we are ROCKING OUT the algebra! Our Friday quiz went beautifully! The students are combing like terms left and right--and we discovered a new love lately: MATH LIBS! It's a twist on the language arts ones you all know and love, only they are competed with math questions!

We have been learning about sound waves as well in science, and we conpleted a sound webquest which was a lot of fun because students got to virtually play different instruments: