GRA - Going Places

This week we finished our final Peter Reynolds book "Going Places". The last 5 weeks were incredible! We had a tremendous amount of fun reading various Peter Reynolds books, as well as connecting and interacting with many classes throughout North America.

As stated in the video above:

 This book is a celebration of the creative spirit and thinking outside the box! 

For Going Places, students were given a challenge. In groups, they were given a bag of supplies and had to demonstrate cooperative learning while creating a mode of transportation. The rules of the project were simple:

- create some mode of transportation (could be a combination of things that exist, could be something completely made up)
- work cooperatively (Each member of the group had to participate, their opinions had to be heard and compromise was the key!)
- could only use the supplies given in their baggies 
- be able to describe what they built, how it works and why they chose that particular design 

The FINAL products:

 

The Airplane                       Fish-Airplane

 

Dolphin Airplane                                      

Boat-Car                                   Car 

2A is full of extremely creative, outside the box thinkers! What a fun and engaging project. I am so proud of the work the students produced, but more importantly, however cooperatively they all worked together! It was a great ending to a great Global Read Aloud :)

Important Dates for November and December

November 7 - Remembrance Day Assembly at 10:30am

November 10 - No School

November 11 - Remembrance Day (No School)

November 14 - Report Cards will be going home!

November 17 - Presentation at 10:30-11:30

November 18 - PJ Day

November 20 - School for students only in the AM, Parent/Student/Teacher conferences in the PM

November 21 - No school for students ~ Parent/Student/Teacher conferences

** Please check online to book your time for Parent/Student/Teacher conferences. **

November 26 - Story Teller Presentation 2:05-2:35

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December 11 - MMH Christmas Gala

December 18 - Skating from 1:00 - 2:00 (Parent volunteers needed!!!!!!)

December 19 - Last day of classes for 2014 :)