Tom Messner Brings A Little Sunshine To Mosaic!

This week we finished up our Weather Home projects using Google Presentation/Drawing tools. The students self reflected and scored themselves using a rubric and prepared the final touches to present to the fourth grade engineers on Friday. They were so proud of their work and you could tell that the fourth graders were really impressed with their engineering ideas and teamwork. Click on the links below to see the presentations.
Eaton Weather Homes 
Parker Weather Homes 

 

We then got to be the audience as the fourth graders shared  comic strips that they had created as they were learning about cause and effect relationships this week. We had done some work with identifying these types of relationships in nonfiction texts and we learned a lot from the fourth graders as well. Their illustrations and story lines were so creative and well prepared!

The highlight of our week was certainly getting to meet Tom Messner! I don't know if he planned it, but as soon as he arrived, the sun came out! He showed us a lot of interesting behind the scenes information and shared his knowledge of extreme weather phenomena. We were thrilled that he included us in the broadcast of the evening news, too!

Next week we will head to the book fair on Tuesday, but the fair is open all week long. We will also have a guest teacher on Wednesday. Mrs. Parks will be doing an engineering read aloud and lesson. I think that she will be impressed with all that we already know about how to think like engineers.

We are also lucky enough to hear from Noah's mom, Sarah Healy, about what it is like to be a professional author. This will be the perfect guest to help us launch our writing unit around personal narratives and true stories. She will join our class on Thursday.