Dynamic Opportunities Newsletter

MATH

Last week in math we completed several assessment activities.  We’ll finish up this week and play math games for the rest of the year.

LANGUAGE ARTS

In Language Arts this week, we worked on a writing assignment talking about “What was the favorite thing I learned this year?” We also had questions in other classes like “Who are my friends?”, “What was my favorite project?”, and “What was my favorite class?” Next week we will be writing ourselves a letter talking about what we learned this year and what we hope to do over the summer. When we come back in the fall, we will be reading our letters and seeing if we reached our goals!

SOCIAL STUDIES

This past week in Social Studies we focused on geography. On Monday we built a full-sized map of North America. When it was completed, we measured it out, it was 9 and 1/2 ft wide by 6 1/2 feet tall! On Thursday we focused on other state fairs and their history while exploring maps and geography games including interactive maps, geography games, and quizzes. This coming week in Social Studies we will focus on wrapping up our focus on North Carolina geography

TECHNOLOGY

In technology class this week we continued our passion projects and coding projects. Students continued to focus on individual assignments on education.com as well!

SCIENCE

Another experimental week in STEM class! Students learned more about states of matter (solid, gas, liquid), and we conducted experiments about the refraction of light and color.

Students used the Scientific Method: “Question, Predict, Experiment, and Observe” for all of our experiments.

This week we used Bubbles for our experiments. Bubbles are pockets of soap and water that are filled with air. We used bubbles to show how bubbles are always round – even if you use a square wand. Did you know the colors in bubbles are caused by light that has reflected off the walls of the bubble? Students also made bubble paint. They used bubble solution and food coloring to make their own designer paper.

Next week we will focus on the end of the year, considering what favorite lessons and experiments were conducted and identifying some things that students would like to learn about next year in STEM class. 

DAILY LIVING SKILLS

In Daily Living Skills, we talked about body language and how people may understand the same words differently depending on our body language. If I casually ask, “ Can you get me some water?” With a kind look on my face and relaxed body language, you will likely get the water for me. If I am standing with my arms crossed and a grumpy look on my face and I say “Can you GET me some water?” It seems more like an order.