1740 South Nevada Ave
Provo, Utah 84606
Phone: (801) 370-4650
Fax: (801) 370-4653
1740 South Nevada Ave
Provo, Utah 84606
Phone: (801) 370-4650
Fax: (801) 370-4653
3rd Grade Book Club
The students are now working on creating commercials about the book, to sell their classmates on reading the book for themselves. They are writing scripts, will videotape themselves performing their commercials and will use iMovie to edit their commercial. Click here to see the script for City of Ember: Lost and Found
The video is finally finished. Click here to watch: City of Ember: Lost and Found |
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4th Grade Discovery Lab
We've been working on a commercial for the book Midnight Magic to "sell" their fellow students on it so they will read it as well. The 4th grade Discovery Lab students have written a script, created a storyboard, and now we are filming with a digital video camera, editing as we go. We'll post it here when we are done.
We are finally finished! Here's the video: Midnight Magic: The Harry Potter Version |
We started out with cryptarithm problems. A cryptarithm is a math problem in which the numbers have been replaced by letters, such as:
Students use their knowledge of the rules of mathematics to find out the number that each letter represents. Visit the following site to see more examples: www.cryptarithms.com
We've also been reviewing problem solving strategies and using them to solve problems from the Math Olympiad. Check out the site by clicking here.
Here's an example of the problems we have done: Five students (Amy, Beth, Corey, Diego, Emily) sit in that order in a circle, counting down to 1. Amy starts by saying, "34". Then Beth says, "33", and so on. They continue around the circle to count down by ones. Who says, "1"?
A Story with Holes is a story that is missing a piece; it doesn't make sense. We ask questions about the story to find out the piece that is missing. They help us stretch our mind and think outside the box; we develop our creative thinking.
Here's an example of a Story with Holes that was told to the class by Daria:
A man lives on the 7th floor in a highrise apartment. Every day he takes the elevator down to go to work. At the end of the day, he takes the stairs up to his apartment. On rainy days, he takes the elevator up.
We read a book the first part of the year called City of Ember. This is the story of a city underground that had a lot of problems. The lights kept going out, and they were running out of supplies. Two twelve-year-olds went on a quest to find a solution.
Many of us are twelve-year-olds and we started talking about problems in our world. We've been talking about pollution and all the trash the world produces and what we do with all of it. We've been talking about solutions for it. We talked about burning all the trash but that creates air pollution. We talked about compressing it so that it takes up less space, like Wall-E does.
Herald Article about Recycling
Recycling Questions and Answers