A busy few days!

It's been a crazy-busy last few days, coupled with the fact that we had a long staff meeting after work yesterday, which has resulted in a whole week without a blog post. I don't like going that long without letting you all know what's going on in our classroom... but life happens!

Anyway, on Wednesday, our school observed the Day of Pink to raise awareness of the impact of bullying. We had a great school-wide activity in the gym, and many classes (including our own) continued talking about the impact of bullying afterward. Here are some photos from that great day:

Getting ready to start - look at all that pink!!!

Listening to Mrs. Cross talk about the impact of bullying.

The students worked together in their Family Groups on some anti-bullying activities.

Check out the great shirt I got from my friend Andy Mead, the principal of George Waters Middle School!

 

Something the students have been working on in the classroom lately during our Daily 5 time is their PIPs (Personal Inquiry Projects). Yesterday was the second time students have presented their finished projects, and they were quite impressive. It's so amazing to see how hard the students worked on these not only during their Daily 5 time, but also at home on their own time. Here are some of the presentations from yesterday:

Hailey K. presented her poster on the Yukon Territories.

Gal presented his poster on some of the different characters from the Marvel Universe.

Braylin, Ava, and Kyra presented together on the solar system (check out Braylin's amazing model!).

Denisse, Hailey M., and Lexi presented on the Philippines...

...and Denisse brought in puto (traditional muffins) for everyone in the class - yum!

Today I put the posters up in our PIP gallery, so other students could have more opportunity to check out their classmates' work.