Summer Enrichment Art Contest

GCISD students of all ages are invited to create artwork illustrating the fun learning

opportunities available through GCISD’s Summer Enrichment Program.  This year’s theme is

“Learning Without Limits Though Summer Enrichment.”  The winning artwork will serve as the

cover design for the GCISD Summer Enrichment brochure, which is distributed throughout the

district and on the website and provides information about registration and summer learning

opportunities for elementary and middle school students.  The student who creates the

winning entry will be recognized in the printed brochure and during a regular meeting of the

GCISD Board of Trustees.

Art must be original and can be hand-drawn, painted, computer-designed or in any other

medium.  Judges will be looking for a design that is creative, appropriate, and uses the

“Learning Without Limits Though Summer Enrichment” theme.  Art should be on 8 ½” x 11”

paper and submitted in color, but be able to be reproduced in black and white.  Our contest

opens January 23, 2015, and the deadline for submitting the art is Friday, February 13th.

Students may submit contest entries at their school office or to Cindy Pearson at Colleyville

Elementary.

Then we continued with our jobs as material engineers. To we took 3 materials (brick, paper, and straw) and brainstormed their properties. Then we decided if they would be a good material to keep you warm based on their properties and had to defend our thinking with proof.

We took our knowledge of the materials and we applied them to new projects. Each groups a different task. They had to determine which material has the properties needed to build a successful model for the task out of the material they picked. The tasks were carrying eggs, a chair, and cleaning a floor. Wow, they designed some amazing models our of materials.

Today for our STEM unit we got to pretend we were material engineers and look at properties of objects. We then looked at how if we changed materials how the new properties would affect the way the object worked. For example we talked about the properties of a spoon and we discussed what would be different if the spoon was made of paper, rock, or glass. We also talked about how some properties are important to how an object works and some are just for looks. For example we looked at a quilt. The weight of the material is important to if the blanket will keep you warm but the color is not. Here are the anchor charts of the class' thinking.

4 Digit Place Value

Busy exploring 4 digit place value in math.

Field trip time!

It's Field Trip Time and we are ready to go explore the Ft. Worth Science and History Museum on Feb. 26th.  Today your child will be bringing home the information and permission slip.  Please review over it and return it to school with the money by Friday, Feb. 6th.  If you have any questions, please let us know.  Thank you!

Today we finished our Rock Star Videos.  Our judges will have to wait until next week to see these, but thought you might like a preview of their great work.
videos

PE supplies are needed

Coach Sutherlin is starting a new engineering unit in PE on Monday and is looking for some supplies. If you can help, she would appreciate it!  The items are:

Plastic bags from various stores (grocery stores, dollar stores, retail stores, etc.)

Duct Tape

3-d printing

Creating our 3-D robots using Tinkercad. Then we will create them on the 3-D printer.

Area

Chees-it's area creations.  Learning about area and designing. 

Please consider donating to my classroom.  If you enter the promo code SPARK by Jan. 22, Donors Chose will match your donation up to $100.  Thank you!!

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Heifer International

The Cannon community service project this year was a donation to Heifer International. After studying magnets in Science, students created a refrigerator magnet that looked like a bee. The magnets were sold at our holiday choir concert. Today Fia & Ian represented all of 2nd grade and presented a check for $120 to the Heifer International representative. We were able to make a donation of 4 sets of honey bees. Read more about this great organization at http://www.heifer.org/

Supplies needed

Mrs. Highfill, the art teacher, is asking for donations of the following items:
*Shoe boxes
*3 volt batteries like the following:

Donations needed

We are in need of hand santizier for our grade level.  If you are able to donate a bottle, we would greatly appreciate it.  Thank you!

3-d shapes

We are using pic collage to create an info graphic about 3-d shapes.  We are using wooden 3-d blocks and building materials to gather the information needed for our project.

2- dimensional shapes

Working on sorting attributes of 2- dimensional shapes.

Play it Safe Program

The "Play-it Safe" Program will be taking place on Friday, February 6th.

A parent preview of the program will be held on January 14, 2015, at 9:00 am or January 15, 2015 at 6:00pm at the GCISD Administration Building – Board Room, 3051 Ira E. Woods, Grapevine, Texas 76051

Una vista previa de los padres del programa se llevará a cabo el 14 de enero de 2015, a las 9:00 am o 15 de enero 2015 a las 6:00 pm en el Edificio de Administración GCISD - Sala de conferencias, 3051 Ira E. Woods, Grapevine , Texas 76051