In 4th Grade we celebrated students who have been working to pass off their math facts! Each student who passed off their bronze, silver, gold, or platinum level was recognized for their hard work and was cheered on by their fellow 4th grade friends!
The Utah Shakespeare Festival is once again hitting the road with its Shakespeare-in-the-Schools touring production – this year performing one of the world’s first psychological thrillers, William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
An evening performance for everyone is this Tuesday, April 16, at 7:30 at Springville High School, 1205 East 900 South, Springville, UT. Another performance will be held on Monday, April 15, at 3:30 p.m. at Spanish Fork High, 300 West 99 North, Spanish Fork. And, admission is free.
Mrs. James's sixth-grade class did a social studies unit on ancient Greece. These last two weeks we were split into six different “city-states”. The city-states were Athens, Sparta, Argos, Thebes, Corinth, and Delphi. All of the city-states would be given contests and tasks to compete for points. The table with the most points, in the end, would win.
As an extension to our beginning of the year geometry unit 4th graders were able to participate in a hands on exploration of triangles. Because these students have a basic understanding that triangles are shapes with 3 sides, they were then able to build upon that already formed knowledge. They discussed, observed, measured, and grouped triangles based on their characteristics. Within their partnerships students had fantastic discussions about side lengths as well as types angles within the shape.
Kindergarten is learning how to subtract with fun learning activities! Some of our favorite activities were pirate subtraction, ‘who took the cookie from the cookie jar?’, and speckled frogs! These activities give students a visual representation and are super fun!
Braylee Conrad, Hayden Marshall, Luke Hollingshead, Kaden Tingey, Estin Oswald, Max Rogers, and Bennett Scott are representing Meadow Brook in the Central Utah Regional Science Fair at BYU today. They all worked extremely hard on their projects.
Third grade enjoys a reward for completing and turning in homework on time. Each week we have a Fun Friday. These range from game days, outside games, to movies, STEM activities or in this case, cooperative learning. Creating a tower using rubber bands and drinking cups was puzzling at first. When the first group figured it out the room buzzed with excitement as everyone built the standard tower and some interesting variations. No hands! Unstacking and re-stacking, all with five or six "handles" of rubber bands. Creativity, Persistence, Focus.
When Mr. Jensen came, he taught us how to do ceramics. If you don't know what ceramics is, it is clay that's been fired. We went to the corral where he taught us how to make clay animals. Then he just built the animals! After we went back to our classes to make our own animals and Mr. Jensen went from class to class to help kids build their animals. That is what happened when Mr. Jensen came to teach and help us build our animals.
This year's 6th graders in Mrs. Brown’s class are doing plays about ancient Egypt. There are three plays: Isis and Osiris, Helen of Egypt, and The Tomb Thief. Each play has a Director and around 9 cast members.