2nd Semester Snack Schedule

Below is the snack schedule for 2nd Semester.  Currently we have a couple spots still open, I will fill those in when we touch base with those that were absent on 1-13-14.  Thanks so much for signing up and all of the snacks are very much appreciated!!
**Reminder: we need snacks for approx. 30 students.

Jan. 13th, 2014

Topsy Turvy

 

Today the students were engaged in learning about fulcrum points and balancing.  We applied knowledge that we gained in the activities to the use of cranes in the real world. 

 We then attempted to create these instances with our weighted bags and meter sticks.  The kids worked on balancing their meter sticks given different variables. 

 The found a pattern for their meter sticks and then used it to make further predictions and complete other activities.

*** Remember no school on Jan. 20th!  Our next meeting will be on Jan. 27th!  We will also meet for a webinar that week on Jan. 30th.  I will be posting the new snack sign up sheet soon. 

First Meeting of the New Year

Mrs. Blust and I are excited to see everyone at the first meeting.  We will be meeting on monday, Jan. 13, 2014 in room 60.  We will be doing a new sign up sheet for treats and that will be posted here as soon as it is finalized!  See you Monday.

12-9-13 Meeting

In monday's meeting the students finished up the ski jumps we had started a couple of weeks ago.  From there they turned the ski jump into a one loop rollercoaster.  Finally, they joined with another group and developed a rollercoaster with at least two loops.  All of this while still being able to get the "rider" into the cup safely.  There ideas were amazing!  Below is some of the groups work!

 Our next meeting is December 16th.  We will be showing the students the movie "Sneakers."  We are showing this movie to spark their interest in the next unit which is Code Breaking!!  They need to have their permission slip with them or turned in ahead of time.  They may bring snacks to eat during the movie.  See you then!

12-2-13

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend.

Just a reminder...... Mrs. Blust and Miss Dornon are at the IMSA Academy being trained on the next exciting unit (Secret Communications: Sharing Concealed Messages)!!

Due to this training there will not be an IMSA meeting tonight.  We will meet again on Dec. 9th!

Hopefully you all are as excited as us to get back to our ski jumps and take them a step further to build roller coasters!!!

See you next Monday!

Thank you

WOW!!! We were so impressed with the turnout at Parent Night!  Thank you so much for coming and supporting your child's math and science endeavors.  Hopefully each of you were able to see some of the things that have been going on at IMSA.  We encourage you to engage your children in conversations about the things we are doing in IMSA.  Also, be sure to check this blog on updates of various types.  At the parent night we began to hand out thank you notes for helping to support our field trip to the IMSA Academy!  Don't worry, if you have not received one you will very soon.  Again, thank you for your support and contributions to that trip.  We truly appreciate your support!

11-18-13 Meeting

Today's meeting was pretty much dedicated to the making of Egg Car for the parent meeting next week.  We did a sort of debrief of the fieldtrip with the kids to see what they enjoyed and what improvements they thought the trip needed.  We don't want to give away the final designs but here are some pictures of the students working on their Egg Cars.....

 As you can see, our groups have many varied desgin ideas!  Can not wait to see the results of the races and if the eggs "live" on Nov. 25th!!
Come and join us to find out the winners ;)