Discovery Place

Discovery Place came to East on Wednesday, September 7th to teach us about simple machines.  Students learned about the six types of simple machines which will show up on their Science EOG.  Students had hands-on experiences with all of the simple machines and were able to see how they work as well!  It was so much fun!

 Desnee determining how much force was needed to get up inclined planes!

 Edgar and Cesar designing Levers.  They built 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class Levers.  They also learned the terms fulcrum, load, and effort.

 

Some of the girls building a first class lever.

 Smiling for the camera

 Building away

 Our class with our Discovery Place Teacher

Daniela doing work to move the can with her pinky!

Check us out!

Part of being ready for the 21st Century involves the ability to use computers.  However, another MAJOR part of being ready for the real-world is being able to work with one another.  This week we put our skills to the test and reserached Biomes on the computer.  As students researched information, they filled out their own personal biome books.  Even though this was an individual assignment, a lot of the students started helping eachother and pointing things out to the person next to them.  So many of the students were engaged and excited about learning!  I'm so proud they are working together so well already! :)

 Help me out!  Desnee is offering help to Angel when looking up Science information :)

 In the above picture, Daniela was so interested to see what was SO COOL two computers down from her!

 Destiny, working hard as usual. 

A view of our class working hard.  Notice, no one is even paying attention to me! SO GREAT! 

Class Economy

This year we started doing a classroom economy!  Students can earn credits for doing the right thing, but they can also earn debits for making poor choices.  Each student keeps a credit/debit notebook on their desk everyday so I can add to it.  At the end of every month students determine how much money they earned.  They also get paid for their classroom job!  After they pay me rent for their desk, students get a check and cash it in with the banker and then they get to go shopping at our class store!

 Here is Cesar with his credit/debit notebook!

These are some of the items the students can shop for at the class store!  Some students have set goals to save up to buy the bigger, cooler things ;)

Scholastic Book Orders

Parents! 

You can order books for our classroom from Scholastic!

Our classroom activation code is: J2FPL

Every time you order a book online, I earn $3.00 to help build our classroom library :)

Biomes of the World

http://www.mbgnet.net/index.html

Animal Adaptations

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/explorations/adaptation/index.htm