DEM BONES,DEM BONES,DEM BONES

Happy Halloween!!! Well,tomorrow at least. But today we finished up our skeletons. "What skeletons" you ask well check out the previous post, A BONEY DAY. We also finished our freezing experiment. But this time we did it on the little playground with the first graders. I heard them say,"why is everyone a statue?" and "I think they are dead!" It was very cool to see the two different reactions.
Last year, we did a lot of logic problems and today we did one about ghosts. Were did Susie Spooky live and what weather she haunted in. It was a great day!!
Ally!

The Original Grand Central Freeze

Our "Little Playground" Freeze

A Boney Day

Today was another great gifted day.One of the things we did today was with skeletons.Because Halloween is next week it was the perfect project.We learned the scientific names of the bones and what they are commonly called.Did you know that your toes and fingers are called phalanges?Well they are.Once we knew what the bones were called we cut paper plates into the shape of the different bones.We put the bones together to form a skeleton.
Today we also learned more songs to our musical and played a little chess.Over all it was a great gifted day.

From,
Carli

Awesome day of Gifted

Today was an awsome day of gifted!We went on a field trip to the World Golf Village and we saw an IMAX movie. The part were the man told us about the science behind golf,Was great,we learned about the rules of golf ,like you can only have 14 clubs in your golfing bag that you can use and many more rules.We also saw an amazing movie called WILD OCEAN which is about and ocean located in Africa and about the oceans ecosystem and what we can do to help with ocean,like not fishing alot because the other animals also need to feed on fish!!!!This spectacular day of gifted was also gifted's first field trip this year!!YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brook and Amina

amazing day!!!!!

Today was an awsome day of gifted!the chess teacher from landstar came to teach us about strategy. He even brought a parter with him to help us.Around the end of the day the wonderful Mrs. Zawis told us about bridges and we made one each out of two dictonares and a paper,then we placed army men on top, my record was 16.We also commented on other poeples blogs to see what they are doing. Some of those people were teachers of sibilings and teachers we know much. This was a wonderful day!!!!



from your 5th grade student, Joshua

Story with Holes

Here you go....Good luck!

The snake's presence saved the Fischbeins from a disastrous flood.

Okay folks...some q&a.....

what the heck is a fischbein?  Does not compute

 Was the flood from rain? No

Was the snake good?Yes Did the snake save them on purpose?Yes

 Did the place were they were matter?Yes

Was it  a plumbing snake?  Yes

Was it a flood like with water?  Yes

Was the flood liquid?  Yes

super duper spectacular day of gifted

Today we had a very special guest, star chess player who volunteered to teach our class about chess. He talked about the pawns, the rooks, the knights, the bishops, the queen, and the king. The only piece that can jump is the knights and if you get a pawn to our opponents side and.. Wellll... lets just say it was spectacular and we get to actually play next thursday!! Chess is all about mental strategies. Also have you ever heard of or read a TIME magazine? Well, we actually got to make our own covers and listed a sub-heading about our future goals.We drew a picture of of our future selves on the front cover of an issue of TIME magazine. It was "Super!" fun and you can do it too!!

-Megan