Gatzemeyer Team 216

In science we have been talking about precipitation and different forms of water. We did an activity where we investigated to see how much moisture a sponge could hold before being saturated and leaking. Then we connected this to humidity and how hotter weather we feel more moisture in the air compared to colder weather.

Our Dressel PTO is the best! We got Smencils for our hard work on the GLA testing! Thanks Dressel PTO Executive Board!

Fraction work! The kids have been working on building their understanding of fractions.

This week we are exploring perimeter! Check out their shapes that all have the same area but different perimeters!

Today we kicked off our learning of AREA! They were tasked with designing Brantley's playroom. At first, they went to town designing and then I asked them to make sure they could explain it to me and how I would need to be able to take their plans to get materials. After discussion with the pods and some more prompting, they designed the playroom and learned that area is super important when planning and designing. Check out some of their initial plans!

Thanks to my dad, I brought in some antiques that the students got to learn about. We used them to talk about the industrial revolution and how technology changes the lives of many people.

We learned a lot about characters the last few weeks. Yesterday we picked a character to share traits about and create a Face in the Hole Project!