Twenty College Hills 4th Grade Chess Club participants attended the CSISD ChessTournament today. They demonstrated this year’s improvements in their chess skills as well as great sportsmanship and behavior. Bravo to them!
Fourth Grade Enrichment and 3rd Grade Math Enrichment classes got to use our lending library pack of 2x2x2 Rubik’s Cubes over the past month. We practiced solving them first. Then we designed Mosaics that we built as a team.
4th Grade GT students have been working on projects with the Architecture in Schools program. We presented our work to parents today. They did a great job & had fun! The 4th Graders went on a field trip to the Texas Renaissance Festival School Days at the beginning of November. We had a great day filled with good weather and fun! For this unit, students took notes on the history of the Renaissance, made headgear (flower circlets or Robin Hood hats) for the festival, created personal Coats of Arms, and are finishing projects on favorite topics of the period.
Fourth grade GT students have taken on the challenge of the 3x3x3 Rubik's cubes. They've worked on learning how to solve them, and many have been successful. We recently created mosaic designs (from scratch and with the help of a website that converts jpg images into grid pictures). Take a look at the results! We have been the recipients of a classroom set of 2x2x2 Rubik's cubes from the Rubik's Company's lending library program. Second through Fourth grade GT & Enrichment students have been working to learn how to solve them. The past two weeks we used the cubes to create mosaics. Students made designs, voted on a design to build, and then solved the top face of the cubes to create the mosaic. Check out the results! One group even made a checkboard & played a game on it! The 3x3x3 cubes just arrived, so keep a look out for future designs! After our scientific fairy tales unit on the Three Little Pigs, the 2nd graders decided to make a movie! Students made their own costumes & props, designed the backdrops, learned how to use a green screen, acted their parts, and created their credit slides. What an amazing creation! Third Grade spent the late fall solving a mystery! While working on The Chocolate Caper, they learned about detective skills, took their fingerprints, developed a chocolate recipe, and completed TONS of logic puzzles! First Graders finished up their Oreo unit before winter break. Take a look! Architects Matt Faulkner and Paul Martinez joined the 4th Grade GT group throughout the fall as a part of the Architecture in Schools program. Students learned about communities, then they worked together as a planning and zoning commission to zone and then build their own community. Next, they learned about housing types before designing their own "dream home," which included sketching the floor plan, building the model, and adding details. Students presented their city to an audience of their parents today. |