The fourth and fifth grade APEX classes spent this week doing research. The fourth grade classes learned some interesting things about the presidents:
Who was the heaviest president? How much more did he weigh than the average 4th grader?
Who was the oldest elected president? Which president was the youngest person to become president? What was the difference in [...]
Official scoreboard:
Steelers 8, Peaceful Animals 7
Tigers 22, Blazing Bees 8
Dragons 12, Steelers 6
Goofy Goober Munchers 21 (Does that include the last-minute touchdown?) Goofy Goobers 13
It was a short week (yea! a snow day!) but the fourth and fifth graders started a new project-creating a commercial worthy of the Super Bowl. Since ads this year are selling for $3 million, the students worked in groups to pick a product, decide which advertising technique they want to use, and develop a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The APEX students knew when they put away their election scrapbooks in November that they’d complete them in January. The time to finish the project finally arrived, and after watching the Inauguration on TV, the students were ready. Besides printing photos from the ceremony, parade, and/or balls, the students had the opportunity to make presidential [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The Fourth Grade students wrapped up their Christmas “shopping.” They figured sales tax, wrote checks, and balanced their personalized checkbooks. Four students (all boys!) successfully finished the assignment by spending all of their money. After buying six gifts for family and friends, each of them had less than $1.00 left. Congrats to Emmanuel, Austin, Sam [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The APEX classes had a good time doing some Thanksgiving problem solving. The Fourth Graders had to decide what eight essential items their group/family would take on a trip to the New World (warm clothes and blankets and the Bible were high on most lists.) They also worked in small groups to create a boat [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The election scrapbooks have been put away until Inauguration Day, and it’s time for some new APEX projects! The fourth graders explored atlases and globes to answer questions like these:
1. If you drove from Mexico to Columbia, you would pass through Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama- in which order?
2. Only one of the [...]
Like the analysts on the TV news, the APEX students predicted who would win the presidential election. After studying the election process last week, each student made a prediction about the electoral and popular vote totals. This was a tough decision for some student because their choice for president and their prediction weren’t the same.
Once [...]
The APEX students wrote persuasive paragraphs and essays about the candidate they hope will win the election. Here are a couple examples of the Fourth Graders’ work:
McCain for President by Jordan
On elction day I want Sen. McCain to be president. Sen. McCain would make a wonderful president because he is a very up beat, happy person. [...]
This week the students finished their campaign buttons.
Click on each thumbnail to see all of the designs. The completed buttons should be ready next week.
Also, one of the classes was able to create and record podcasts to encourage people to vote. The students used persuasive techniques we observed in the second debate. The groups wrote [...]
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