Who We Are

As part of our research during Dear America, we researched a country we were assigned. Some of the countries were Russia, Poland, England, and Japan. As soon as you knew it we were making slides for a video. Some of the slides were food, push and pull factors, inventions, and about the authors. It probably became one of the most liked projects. 

Then we wrote a script for the video. After we were done with our script we had it checked. Then we recorded our script on Explain Everything which we did on the iPads. When we were done it was so cool! Then we presented our presentations and everyone loved it!

By Jacob and Daniel

Graphing Waves of Immigration

Using a ruler to highlight just the
 country we were studying.

Adding all the answers together.

As part of our research during Who We Are, we calculated the population of the country we were researching.  We added up every 20 years, and later found the total population of those years.  Then we went to a website to create a graph, showing all the waves of immigration.  We created the line graph because it was clearest to show the biggest wave of immigration.

It was fun to create the graphs!  Miles did a graph for the Netherlands and Jules did a graph for India.  We both thought that create a graph was fun!

By Jules and Miles

Recording the information on an organizer.

We did lots of math during Who We Are!

Culture Interviews

Character Study Book Club

Where We Are in Place and Time

Hour of Code!

Then we did a little all together.

We started as a class watching an
introduction video during lunch.

The Hour of Code is all about learning how to code a computer. That means we learned how to tell the computer what to do. We played coding games. One of the games was Angry Birds. We had to get the bird to the pig. We all enjoyed that game!

Then it switched to plants vs. Zombies where it got a little harder. We had to get the zombie to the sunflower to win. There were all different command blocks you had to use to get the zombie to the sunflower. In between the levels, every five or so, were videos to teach you how to use the command blocks. There was 20 levels. Once you finished all 20 you got to do whatever you wanted. There were some games like light bot and hop scotch. Some people, if they wanted, they could use scratch. Scratch was fun but challenging to figure out how to use. We all had fun learning how to code!

By Meghan and Grant

Google Earth

Thinkers on Google Earth looking at the Titanic.

Google Earth is a program where you can look at the different parts of the earth. You can look at the earth, or even go into outer space! You can see parts of the earth from every angle! Google Earth is a fun and easy way to get directions, or see countries, states, cities, and more. You can even see stars in Google Earth!

You can type in any place in the world. Say you typed in the White House. You could follow the roads and see the front of the White House, or even see the inside of the White House! If you type in Titanic, you can even go under water and see where it sunk! There is so much you can do with Google Earth!

Getting step-by-step directions.

By Brigette and Nick

Going from the Cider Mill to Conant.

Two Thinkers enjoying Google Earth.

A Thinker looking at the stars!