Learning Lab Notes
The First 9 Weeks is in the Books!
Personal Achievement Awards
Every quarter, we will honor students for their hard work in some area of their learning. We get to brag about each child in front of an audience and it brings us great joy and pride to recognize an area each person has shown hard work and dedication in during this past quarter. The students pictured below were honored this quarter as North Stars who showed amazing effort in the area of recognition.
Jason- Writing
Wylen
Math Notebook Awesome Thinking
Cody
More Awesome Math Notebook Thinking
Chandler
Rocking out Reading Responses
Lydia and Alyssa
SCAMPER- Their new and improved pencil.
Trestyn
Awesome writing partner advice
Chandler (aka Christian)
Huge effort and improvement in reading responses.
Jakub
Writing Narrative (notebook and small group work)
Brenden aka Brunden
Stretching out details and backing up ideas with text evidence- Reading Workshop
Amelia
Writing Notebook Revision Master
Nick
SCAMPER- The Pencil Telescope
Leo
The Pencil Slinger
Emily
Sets examples by working hard in every part of her day.
Lucas- Responding about Reading
STEAM=Science-Technology-Engineering-Art-Math
A Wonderful Hands-On Mobile Museum
On Monday, a STEAM museum visited North. The students were able to experience multiple hands on exhibits that promote thinking and exploration in science, technology, engineering, art and math. After a quick introduction of the exhibits, students were invited to explore and get their hands on each station representing a different area of STEAM. It was a wonderful experience for everyone.
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Cylinder Racing with Lydia and Maddie
Isaac Newton's Law of Motion
Chloe
Racing Cylinders with Different textures
Mac, Addy, Jakub
Pedaling Power
Eva
Annabelle generates energy
Aiden's Pedaling Power
Cristofer Experiments with Gears
Cayden and Jason build with Kinex
Tommy demonstrates Building Gears
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Adrian's thinking about building with Kinex
Art and Robots
More Coloring Robots
Koteewi
A Journey Through Native American Life
On Wednesday, our historians visited Strawtown Koteewi Park to learn about Native Americans who lived right in Noblesville. Each group visited a station that represented something about the history of the Native people and gave us a glimpse into early life and cultures that influenced our daily life today.
Flipagram - Koteewi- 2015
The White River was the highway for Native Americans.
The Atlatl
Students learned about Native American weapons.
Artifacts are a Puzzle
Emily and Mr. Linville putting the pieces together of an artifact.
Aiden and Chandler use teamwork
Reading Workshop
Interactive Notebook
Over the past two weeks, we have spent time creating Interactive Notebooks as response tools. Each reader created a picture with an audio button, two videos, and a Chatterpix video (demonstrated below). Each of these pieces of the notebook still follow the same line of thinking- making a reader's invisible thinking visible and backing that thinking up with text evidence. Below, you will find an example. Please ask your child to show you his or her notebook in Book Creator.
Chloe creates her video and watches it back before adding it to her notebook.
Interactive Notebook- Karlie
Erika prepares to record her video using notes and her book.
Chatterpix
Chatterpix-Cinder
Demonstrating Chatterpix
Emily's Book Talk
Writing Workshop
Wrapping Up Narratives
Writers have been working very hard to wrap up their narrative writing. There has been lots of revision going on and in small groups, writers have been sharing writing to get advice on how to elaborate details that will make the story come to life. Several writers have been working on editing and polishing to finally publish their first piece of writing. Some students will need to work on their narrative over break to finish it up and should have everything they need to do so. We will share these stories when we come back from break.
Writers' Share
Nick reads a part he revised with the class.
Sharing a published piece.
Alyssa
Adding detail to a finished draft.
Brookelin
Emily reads her narrative
Sharing with Partners
Amelia and Ava
Drafting and Revising
Grace in her groove.
Adding Detail
Luke works hard to stretch out his writing.
Math Workshop
5th Grade (Kimmel Math)- These past two weeks were spent wrapping up the Geometry unit. Students practiced measuring angles with and without a protractor, created tessellations, learned about types of trianges (scalene, isosceles, equilateral) reviewed types of angles and took and corrected their Unit 3 test.
6th Grade (Jones Math)- We wrapped up Unit 3 on algebra and reviewed in creative ways. Several students created games and activities that the class used to study (see below). This past week was spent on a mini- graphing unit. We studied and practiced using line plots, stem, leaf plots and finding landmarks (mean, median, mode, maximum, minimum, range).
QR Reader Math Review Game
Payton checks his answer using a QR code Karlie and Paige created on the back of each question.
Long Division
Payton and Cam
Graphing Questions
Bradley and Aiden
Special Cases and General Patterns
Everyone
Unit Tests
Abby uses amazing detail when she explains a graph.
Math Pups Practice Geometry
Adjacent and Vertical Angles
Front Row
Both math classes use this app that adapts questions according to students' skills.