The Power of Yet

Poetry Power

By Student Bloggers: Ayden, Emmitt, Natalia, Maddy, Myles

Have you ever heard of the Power of Yet? In this classroom we got tagged in this game called Poetry Tag. And it is a game going around our school. We memorized a poem called The Power of Yet. This is us making tee-shirts for the game. 

We decided to tag Mrs. Obuchowski’s class after  voting. Mrs. Gibbas found out that we could tag two classes so we decided to tag team Highmax. We were all so happy to try on our awesome  new tee-shirts. They looked amazing! We tagged the two classes by looking at their schedule and found the perfect time to strike.

The Power of Yet is something we are trying to remember in our classroom. Just because you cannot do something yet does not mean you can’t ever do it.

Vivid Volcanoes

Vivid Volcanoes

By: Student Bloggers 

Connor, Gavin, Nevin, Norman, Veronica, and, Sayles

Do you think you can make a volcano erupt by mashing a button? Last week on Thursday, September 26th we made volcanoes erupt. This is how it started. We colored volcano pictures the day before, then Mrs. Klipfel came with the iPad cart. The room was loud and full of excitement as we pressed the icon of the app Quiver. “Mine's still not working!”́ "Mine too!” everyone exclaimed.Then once it finally worked we held the ipad over the picture and a there a three dimensional volcano popped up on the screen. Everyone was in shock how a colored picture could come to life on a screen. We decided to do this activity because we were studying earth's moving features.Everyone was walking around to see other people’s volcanoes erupt.We thought it was so cool that we could take the quiz about volcanoes. “When saying wow that's so cool”. We thanked Mrs. Klipfell for the amazing learning experience and making volcanoes come to life. Then she was on her way. And that was the end of our volcanic experience.

Rumbling Into Amazing Earthquakes

Rumbling Into Amazing Earthquakes

By Student Bloggers: Jac, Nathan, Ruby, Adelyn, and Ava

Soil bounced out of the pan and fell on the table as Ruby tapped the pan violently with a wooden block. The reason why we were doing this project is because we were trying to see how an earthquake can affect earth's landforms and  surface. The supplies that we used were a tin foil pan. Then we put foam in the pan. After that we put soil on top of the foam. Finally, we put it on a surface where there would be a crack in between. Then Ruby started tapping the pan. Then suddenly something emerged! Was it a foam block? The block of foam was supposed to represent the tectonic plates. Then we all had a discussion about what happened to the model. In the discussion we were saying that the earthquakes can make new landforms like mountains, valleys, canyons, plateaus and hills. This was a fun learning activity that we wish we could do again.

Comic Collection

The Team Gibbas Comic Collection

By Student Bloggers: Uma, Will, Evan, Tyler, Hadia

                               

Did you know that it is possible to make comics the size of a credit card!? Well, you can! We got this idea by reading a book called Lunch Money. The main character in the story, Greg, made little comics and we thought it would be cool to make our own!  They turned out to be great. We were so proud of our little comics. First we came up with our rough drafts, then we wrote our master copies and then we illustrated them. Once we did that we cut them out we glued them onto a piece of paper, folded them, then stapled them, and finally cut them.  We have them hanging in the hallway outside of our classroom in little pouches. We all had an amazing time creating comics and sharing them with our classmates.