Today we started working with the data that we collected from parents. Students are turning the information gathered in the Google Form into line plots.
Working with Parent Data
A Few Pics to Illustrate the End to a Great Spring Break
These were the last submissions. Thanks to everyone who shared!
Pictures from the 2nd Week of Spring Break
Thank you to all the families who shared pictures of what they have been up to during our break. And if you look closely, a few even got caught with books!
Spring Break Highlights from Room360
Thanks to everyone who shared a picture. Enjoy the last week of break!
Gomm’s Visit to the Spanish Springs Quarry
Today the students in Room360 got to visit the Martin Marietta Spanish Springs Rock Quarry. The team at the quarry was great and allowed students to tour the facility, learn about the work they do, and hear more about the quarry’s role in construction throughout Northern Nevada.
Another Great Brown Bag Lunch
Thank you families for visiting and being part of the Brown Bag Lunch today. It is great to see so many of you, share what is happening in the classroom, and promote the learning your child is engaged in. Linked here is the PowerPoint I shared and here is the link to the Farmer’s Insurance Vote
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NevadaTeach Leads Room360 through an Engineering Experience
Led by NevadaTeach students from the University of Nevada Reno, Room360 explored the differences of building structures in topsoil, sand, and rock. The NevadaTeach students used a lesson from Engineering is Elementary to guide the students through the scientific process and to allow access to the engineering standards within the Nevada Academic Content Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards.
Blending Google Forms with Fraction Work
Today we took an assessment covering multiplication and division of fractions and decimals. I changed things up a bit, however, by having students record their answers in Google Forms. This allows for instant feedback like you see below for me and a way for parents to keep current on student performance. In short, I’ll likely be doing this again.
Masterpiece Art for February
One of the great things about Roy Gomm is the consistent exposure to the arts that students receive. In part, the Masterpiece Art program, led by parent volunteers, aids this. This week parents led students through an exploration of work by Wassily Kandinsky.
The finished art will be displayed in the Gomm multipurpose room.
Zooming In
Today we completed a Zoom In. In this case we took a careful look at Edward Hicks’ Peaceable Kingdom. This is an instructional strategy first introduced to me by Angela Orr which she describes as follows:
The Zoom-In Strategy is an excellent way for you to have students participate in document analysis in a new way. Zoom-In’s are images that have been manipulated so the students only see a portion of the image, rather than the whole thing at one time. Students often struggle to identify the nuances in art, details in a photograph, or historical significance of terms or images chosen by an author/artist/photographer/illustrator. Zoom-In’s highlight these nuances and with the use of guiding questions enable students to analyze primary sources in a new way.
The strategy is important insofar as reinforcing the the habit of making claims supported by reasoning and evidence.
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