We have heard wonderful biographies about Christopher Columbus's journey to North America, Amelia Earhart's solo flight around the world, Mirzo Ulugbek's important contributions to astronomy, Jane Goodall's research about chimpanzees, as well as from many other personalities in history. As we are winding down with this Unit of Inquiry, the boys and girls in 3P have been working on their research skills by analyzing and deciphering the important information, writing biographies into proper format, and presenting their information in the form of a video autobiography. I am so proud and impressed with their work, and they too should be proud!
This past week in math, we have been investigating about coordinates on maps, in the context of how explorers hundreds of years ago navigated the oceans. Our Blue Bot challenge #4 was designed to have students work together in small groups so that they successfully navigate their way around the map in short order. It was a very successful challenge, with a lot of collaboration and teamwork.
Our next UOI, How We Express Ourselves, begins this week. It promises to be an invigorating unit which all students, whether they are artistically inclined or not, will learn tremendously. The arts are a unique way to communicate a message or story--which happens to be our central idea.
This week I will be away on Thursday and Friday at a teacher conference in Oman, but the students will be in very good hands! I look forward to meeting parents for student-teacher conferences on Wednesday. See you then!
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