Pi Day Celebration

5th Grade Mathematicians recently celebrated Pi Day. Pi Day is March 14th ( 3.14) every year....

We celebrated by wearing Pi crowns, cooking and eating apple, chocolate and pizza pie, and of course learning all about how to find the circumference and area of circles. We also found the circumference and area of our heads (pretending, of course that they were perfectly round circles.)

We're proud of Maria for memorizing 27 digits of Pi to win our Pi memorization contest!

If you click this link, you can see some Pi songs written by our 5th graders.

Here are some pictures from our celebration... 

Creating our Pi crowns

Using the crowns to help us determine circumference...

Ms. Blair helped us with her cooking expertise and kitchens. We are so grateful to her!

Applied Math Homework for 3/8

Here is a great trebuchet based game called Crush Crush the Castle

When you play it, take the time to consider what it takes to successfully knock down the castle walls. Come to class prepared to discuss your findings. Good luck!

Pictures from Improv and Public Speaking

In February, the improv group had two special events. 

The first one was a visit from Jonathan Farmer, who is an actor, director and writer out of NYC. He taught us about projecting our voices and about pronouncing things clearly.

Here are a couple of pics from that visit...

And try these tongue twisters: 

You know New York, unique New York

You know you need unique New York

Red leather, yellow leather (x5)

Rubber baby buggy bumpers (x5)

We also partnered with some 4th graders from AES to present the Change for Haiti Results

GBS and AES together raised almost $1600 for earthquake victims!

Here are a few pictures from our presentation to the AES and GBS students ...

ELP Update

Hello ELP students and Families,


We've been super busy here at GBS....

• If you get a chance, check out The Bobcat's Meow. The student journalists have been creating many fabulous articles about the happenings at the school

• The scriptwriters have finished the play. It is called Dragon-Aid : The Flavor with the Fiery Kick. It promises to be a fantastic show!

• Costume Design is in full swing, now that the play is finished. We'll have a display of some models of costumes in the main hallway right after vacation. The designers have been creating and thinking very thoughtfully.

• If you check out the previous post, you can see what the Applied Mathematicians have been doing.

• 5th Grade mathematicians have been learning about graphing and about Pi. We are looking forward to Pi Day in March!

•  Improv and Public Speaking has been working with new members to continue learning good public speaking skills and to start to prepare for a show in April. 

• Griffin's Nest boasts 60 total children involved with the program! We are very excited to celebrate the ongoing connections between GBS and AES students.

• Our newest class, Flip Vid Movie Making is off to a great start. We hope to have some movies to show you soon. So stay tuned!

There are over 100 students involved with ELP at GBS. It is the whole range of grades and learners. I'm proud of you. Keep up the good work everyone!

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Applied Math Video

Look at what Applied Mathematicians have been up to!

HERE

Math Games

Please play these games:HERE
and
HERE

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