Thursday, April 23, 2009


Today in gifted we starting working on a project about National Parks. We are probably going to make a glogster about them. There is a good website about them. We all mostly wanted to do the really famous ones but found some other really cool ones.We have been working on greek myths alot so now we are working on Greek Myth Skits which will be really fun. So we have alot to work on in the next few weeks!!
Ally

Thursday, March 19, 2009

a glogiest day of gifted

Today in the class room we were visited Mrs. Holstman came and told us about this neat site called glogster, which you can make your on webpage and tell about yourself or other things. Mrs. Zawis told us to make one and to tell about one of the gods in our comics of myths I and my group did one about Zeus and we thouth it was amazing . I will never forget this glogiest day forever and I hope you don't forget about it to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by: joshua

ps:you are really nice mrs. Zawis

Thursday, February 26, 2009

marvelous gifted

Today in gifted we had a Cummer video stream and we learned about how artist think and also about still lifes we saw every thing that was there like on a actual visit it was so cool and everyone worked together and we also learned about greek mythology!!!

-Sara

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Gifted missing peaces

Today in gifted we made are own versions of stories with holes and we called them missing peaces. It would be a story missing some information to the story and you have to figure out what happened.Here is an example by Carli and Brook: A bird sings every morning and was bothering Paul, his owner.Paul then decided to get rid of the bird and crushed it with a hammer.There was no blood and the bird was not harmed but it never sang again.The answer is that the bird is a cuckoo clock.
We also sent thank you cards to soldiers over seas by Internet and by mail where we got to customize them both ways.It was so fun!

Austin

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Stories with Holes

Here you go!

If Jack H. is a very important part of a family, why is he so often thrown around?

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Greek Goldberg


Today we learned about Greek mythology and even made our own versions of greek myths.We got to make paintings inspired by Georgia O'Keefe's artwork.We learned more about Rube Goldberg and how he loved to make comics that show how Americans make things more challenging than they need to be.

The myths we learned were the ones of Pandora's Box, Arachne and Athena. We also learned of the history of greek mythology and different cultures.Many myths date back to 40,000 bc and are still around today.

Rube Golberg was well know for his comics and "inventions". He would show how to be sure you remember to mail your wife's letter (shown above) and many , many more.
We learned these things from www.rubegoldberg.com

Jack and Carli

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Gifted Goldberg

Today we learned about Rube Goldberg, the cartoonist, and his inventions(cartoons). We also made our own Rube Goldberg inventions and figured out how to make a"Better mouse trap." He makes simple things become so complicated.He made a character called Professor Butts.For example, he needs to do a simple task to remember to mail a letter. But he makes it complicated and makes a whatcha-ma-callit that reminds him to mail the letter.