April 6 - 9

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 Ecosystem Presentations

" We presented our ecosystems and wrote a script about it. We had our last day of working on it." Sam

" We each had grade 4 (working on a trap for the cause that is making them extinct). The grade 3s were working on the ecosystem where they wouldn't get killed by any of the things that were happening to them." Makena




Newscast Presentations

"Every country or city shared their videos that they made. You had to write a script a script and write down all their disasters they had and you had to film it. Yesterday we showed the class." Charlie

"In the videos we talked about our countries and the problem." Mason

"We posted our videos on our sites about the news in our city or country." Dorela

Fractions

"We had these groups and we had to find fractions to put on the Frayer Model. We has examples of fractions." Evelyn

"We did a math fraction problem called Plenty of Cupcakes and it had three boys and we had to figure out how many equal parts of cupcakes they would each get." Liam


Genius Hour

"We wrote about our subject that you wanted to write about. You could either put it on a poster, slideshow and you could do it on a Google Doc, you could do a book. You had to write or draw or both about your subject you wrote about." Aria

"We would gather up all the information that we got from one of the categories that we picked. We put them in paragraphs and if we chose a poster or a slide show you would just copy that down. After we're done we can present it." Mila

Story Spine

"We chose our character and we wrote a story spine on our character. A beginning, a middle and ending and we had to think of something that would happen. Owen

"Our categories were Once upon a time, every day, until one day, because of that, because of that, because of that, until finally and ever since then." Ege

Saa'kokoto

"We got into a Google Meet and Saa'kokoto told us stories about Thunder and somebody who lost his wife." Jake

"He told us a story about a man whose wife, they were going to a river and he fell and then when he went back up there his wife was gone. He went to a place and the one guy told him he gave him his wings and he took his bow and arrow and found lots of rock trees and then he found one man. He defeated him and once you hear a thunder you bring everyone together and you celebrate." Suld



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