Southmont Elementary School AIG

Fourth Grade AIG math students worked in pairs to discover equivalent fractions, which in turn gave them clues to solve a double logic elimination grid. Students did a great job solving these!

Fifth Grade AIG students drew on their knowledge of force and motion to create paper roller coasters. Students were given certain parameters that they had to use when building. Most groups were successful in their builds.

Fifth grade reading AIG students concluded our novel study of “The Westing Game” by creating text specific board games. Students created the game with trivia that comes from the text and had to complete everything from scratch as well as write directions for others to be able to play their game. Writing directions proved to be the most challenging part of the activity. After games were completed, students had to rely on their classmates directions to play each game. Students gave feedback to each other group as a way to learn how to grow from this activity.

Fifth grade AIG students learned about the history of The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade through the text Balloons Over Broadway. 🎈

After reading, students created their own personalized balloons using tin foil, markers and a laminator.

Fourth grade AIG students continued with SEED (Silverquicken Episodes for Enrichment and Diagnosis) challenges with Episode 1: Four-Maze l.
Students were fully engaged as they explored puzzles, challenges, and creative problem-solving tasks that stretched their thinking in new ways. It is always a pleasure to watch their perseverance, excitement and their thinking come to life as they worked through the mazes and puzzles together.

The students had some great feedback on their experiences.
“I love a good maze and THIS is a good maze!”-Dax
“This experience was fun and is very challenging for my brain.”-Morgan
“This experience was so fun and very challenging. I liked the way I had to think to figure out the puzzles hidden in the mazes.”-Brooklyn

Fourth Grade students read the text, The Water Princess based on the story of Georgie Badiel. The story talks about Gie Gie and her mother’s daily walk to get clean water. After reading the picture book, we read and learned some more about the water situation throughout the world. Students then predicted what items could be good to help filter the dirty water. After predictions were made, students worked in groups to test these items. The reactions were fantastic! After testing the items, students could choose 3 items and create a better water filter. They had some very creative ideas and some of them worked really well.

Third grade math students have been reviewing for their EOGs. Students reviewed all fraction standards with a partner activity called “Escape from Emoji Jungle”. Leila was the first to escape and solve all the problems and puzzles. This was such a fun way to review!

After completing The Westing Game, students created board games that were based on the text, complete with creating every element of the game. Students worked in groups to create these. After games were created students got to play each other’s game. Each group gave constructive feedback. Directions writing proved to be the biggest challenge.

After reading Kate DiCamillo’s book The Tiger Rising, fourth grade reading students continued the story and created a road map to symbolize the journey after the tiger. Each group summarized the text then wrote a sequel based on some question prompts. There were some creative stories!

Third grade math students became detectives as they completed a “Whodunnit?” Equivalent fractions activity, played like the game Clue. They had to solve for equivalent fractions and get clues that would lead to the suspect, location and method.