Hour of Code

Coding Success Feels Like This!

Recently Team Gibbas students got to try their hands at coding as part of the worldwide Hour of Code movement.  Each year during Computer Science Week, December 4th - 10th, students get the opportunity to try the basics of coding in a fun one hour session.  This year students got to try to write computer programs in the themes of Angry Bird, Star Wars, Minecraft, Moana, and Frozen.  They could also create a Google logo, use Scratch to create their name, or try beginner's javascript.

  Click here to learn more about Hour of Code.

Thank you, Mrs. Klipfel for bringing this fun and challenging learning opportunity to us!

Winter is snow fun!

As part of Spirit Week at Proctor School students and staff dressed up like snowmen.  Click the video below to see what happened when our class was trapped in a snowglobe!

Fortunately, we were able to escape the snowglobe.  Here we are with a snow friend.

Onomato-what?

Onomatopoeia -  When a word is formed from the sound that an associated thing makes.

Examples: Boom!  Bang!  Crash!  Sizzle!

Team Gibbas students have been learning about different tools that poets use to create poems.  This past Wednesday students choral read/performed poems with examples of onomatopoeia.  Then students searched our vast collection of poetry books to find additional examples of sound words.

Click here for video of poem "Mom and Dad are Home"

Click here for video of poem "In the Kitchen"

Click here for the video of poem "The Game"

How many examples of Onomatopoeia can you think of?

Team Gibbas on the Map

As part of our study of the different regions of the United States Team Gibbas students collected data on which U.S. states they have lived in or visited.  From this data we created a class map using Google My Maps.  An orange heart represents a place that we visited.  Houses represent a place that we or an immediate family member has lived. 

Mrs. Gibbas explains the pins that she placed on the map.

Look at all the places that we have explored!  

Question:  Using our map data, which region of the country had the least amount of visitors?

Why do you think that is?

Thank you Mrs. Klipfel for sharing this learning opportunity with us!