Genius Hour snapshots 9/19

Working on a blog about pandas

Researching and collaborating to discover where Pokémon began and to design their own Pokémon cards

Combining two things she loves (1) art (2) Dad - - creating a giant piece of original artwork for Dad

Tu-tu created from Zoobs - he even gave us a twirl

Pentominoes

Pentominoes come from the fictional story of William the Conqueror and the dauphin of France who were playing chess...The story tells the tale that the dauphin threw the chessboard at this opponent in a fit of frustration and how the son of William the Conqueror responded by breaking the chessboard over the dauphin's head - - breaking it into thirteen pieces, twelve pentominoes and one square!

 

We used the pentominoes to try to create one large rectangle using ALL of the pieces (no throwing, or breaking over heads!)

 

 

1st Genius Hour Project - COMPLETE!

Task: To create a "giant" banana out of LEGOs

Challenges: Not enough yellow LEGOs at Meriwether - a generous thank you to Red Hill EDEP (and our former teacher Ms. "B" for sending an ice cream container full of them!)

Presented to fellow students on 9/12 - students also watched entries from his video journal (on the iPad)

New Staff Spotlight

Laura Elzey - 4/5 Teacher

 

      This is my third year at Meriwether and second year with EDEP, I am very happy to be at Meriwether both in the morning and afternoon this year! I am somewhat of a Charlottesville native; I've lived here for about ten years off and on, but my heart remains in my "hometown" on the Easter Shore of Maryland. Keep Calm and Crab On!  When I'm not at Meriwether, I enjoy adventuring around with my 4 almost 14 year old daughter, and anything that has to do with the sun and sand. I graduated from Old Dominion University, GO MONARCHS! This year I am hoping to finally make it to one of our football games. I love crafts, antiques, photography, reading (newbie book worm), movies, music, baseball (GO Orioles!) and of course Pinterest. I am excited to explore Maniac Math Mondays, Tech Tuesdays, "Real World"  Wednesdays, TLC Thursdays, and Fun Fridays this year with your children at EDEP!