Have a Gifted Christmas!

Today in Gifted, We did something called a Holiday Wordle! A Holiday Wordle is when you type in something, copy and paste something into it, or enter the name of any blog and then you press enter, and it jumbles the words up in every which-way, and it's a wordle! The words that are used the most show up the biggest, and the words that are used the least, the smallest, sometimes they are not even visible. Check it out at the Wordle website!

Kandinsky circles

Today in gifted we did a mimic of Kandinsky's several circles. Firstly we painted the front and back of four paper plates. We then cut off the rim and used them as arcs to connect our circle. in the end all our paintings looked somthing like this.
-Andy

Top 40 Musical

Top 40 is comin' soon so get your groove on! Our gifted Top 40 musical is coming on January 22 and 23. So be ready for the speical night. Kindergarten through fifth grade will be dancing and singing in crazy costumes. It will be our greatest musical yet. So get ready to be blown away with all the great songs, dances, and costumes ever. If you're a parent and you're reading this, you'll probably know most of these songs. Oh, by the way, all of these songs we'll be singing have been on the Top 40 radio show.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that everyone has a wonderful break. Check out this fantastic Thanksgiving rap, composed after reading our book of the month, A Plump and Perky Turkey.

Today In Gifted

Today in gifted we had a BLAST!!!!!! We had to make crafts about our book of the month A Plump And Purky Turkey. We wrote rap songs, made posters, and comic strips. It was alot of fun.Also we finished our group choose your own adventure stories today. We worked together to write stories that had lots of different endings. Look for them to be added to our blog very soon. It was so AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .

-JEREMY

Todays day in gifted class

Today in gifted class we did paintings of Edger Degas. We learned that Edgar Degas liked to draw horses,ballet dancers, and a object traced and draw in different directions that makes it look like it moving. Another thing we did in gifted class is the wonderful wikis. We did research of the modern 7 wonders of the world and added them to the continent wikis on the cce website. We read facts of the Great wall of china, Machu Picchu,and etc. We had wonderful day at our gifted class.

-Min

Mystery Powders Mystery?

Today we worked on Mystery Powders. What did we do? We put some baking soda in a sandwhich bag.Then we added vinegar to it. Then it started bubbling like Sprite. It turned into a gas then into a liquid.This is called a chemical change not a physical change a chemical change is when two things mix and won't change back and something new is created. In a physical change, they can change back to the way they were, like water turning into ice and then melting back into water. It was awesome . It was one of the BEST science projects Ever.

-Abby and Alexis

Thank you to all who attended our open house last week. In case you weren't able to attend, please enjoy the slide show below.

A "wonder"- ful day in gifted

Today we learned about the modern 7 wonders like, the Taj Mahal or the Great Wall of China. We went on the CNN website to learn about it. We also learned how to make a origami bat since it was Halloween. It really did look like the shape of a bat. I might of memorized how to make it.
Click here for a how to video.

Jake

Today in gifted---CHAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Today we mostly focused on doing our Atlas Ads because, the next week on the 24th we have it off because of a teacher planning day, so we had to work extra hard. :) We learned multiple new songs for our "Top Forty" musical. We also filmed our Atlas ads and will be updated soon on the blog for our *fans* to watch. Some of us finished our Tessellations to and drew pictures on them. (I did a ninja star xD.) While the rest of our class was doing their filming we worked on our honey robbery "Do Theives go Underground."

STAY UPDATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


~~Kyle the bomdiggity

JMOCA SIideshow

Take a look at some of the fun hands on activities that we took part in at the museum.

The JMOCA Field Trip

The JMOCA was an awsome field trip.The first section was an asian sculpture of a god some people worshiped long ago.There was a part that we even got to do a hands-on activity.We got to see LOTS of paintings and sculptures.There were sculptures that we thought were real.Some sculptures (if you looked straight in it`s eyes) it would look like it was moving!To go to the website,click here.


Jake and Erina

Fingerprinting

What do you always have but always leave behind?  Your fingerprints!  Most people's fingerprints look like a whorl, loop or arch. What does your index finger look like?

One of the most exciting activities that we took part in during Friday's gifted class was "fingerprinting".  We paired together, and using real police fingerprinting powder, took one another's fingerprints.  We began by cleaning our tables in order to wipe them clean of any prior fingerprints.  Each partner then placed their prints all over the table.  Using brushes, we carefully dusted the table with the fingerprint powder in order to reveal the prints.  Lastly we lifted the prints that we found using a piece of tape and laid them on a contrasting color (white) paper.  We will spend next week (some of us already did so) inspecting the prints to identify which partner they belong to.  How do you tell?    Each indiviual's prints are completely unique!

Take a look at our detectives at work!

Today in gifted we made tessellations, It was so much fun! Are you wondering what a tessellation is? Well, I know, so get ready, a tessellation is a shape that you can flip, turn, rotate,ect. that makes a bigger patterned picture. http://www.tessellations.org M.C. Escher was the first person to start tessellations.This is a really cool link. You can look at all these cool tessellations. These are amazing!




Lexi and Sydney

AWESOME day in gifted

Today in GIFTED!!!! We did a lot fun stuff like pointillism (an art style that Georges Seurat used for his famous paintings) it was a little challenging. Another thing was Scientist Wikis. We created our own wiki website. A wiki is a wesite that other people can edit, like Wikipedia.Last (and my personal favorite) Webster's Theater! Mrs. Zawis handed out words to pairs of two people. These were words that noit many of us knew, so we looked for what they ment and then we acted them out. Well, thats the end! Keep visiting the blog for more news! BY CHRIS

Fantastic First Day

What a fun and mentally invigorating first day we had in gifted class! We have several new friends in our fourth grade group, which makes our class dynamic even better. One of our new friends will be posting this week, so I will leave the majority of the updating to his future post...I'll just lightly graze over some of what took place last week. We created self portraits and surrounded them with various words that described our leadership qualities. We also learned about Georges Seurat, who painted in a style called "pointillism." This is a technique that takes much patience and diligence, which we learned as we tried it out ourselves. Okay, I could go on...but I will stop here and leave the rest to the "real" bloggers!

Reminder!

Hi everyone!
Don't forget to tyoe your name at the bottom of your comment...there is a very important reason that I need to know!
Thanks!
PS- Who left the fabulous comment about Japan?

Welcome Back!

Dear Fourth Grade Friends,
I am so excited that our school year is about to begin! Our journey this year will take us around the world in 180 days. Together, in gifted, we will virtually explore our world and have lots of fun along the way. In preparing for our journey I would love to know where you want to go. If you could learn more about our world or travel anywhere, where would that be?? Please click on the comment box below and directions will appear as to how to add a comment. Be sure to add your name at the bottom of your comment. I can’t wait to hear your ideas!

Your travel guide,
Mrs. Zawis

Last Day Of Gifted By Sonia

I have only been in gifted for about a month but so far my favorite activity is when we did the myth busters yawning is contasious . This was my first week in gifted and I liked doing this because i really like myteries and I thought this activity was interesting because i've never really thought about if yawning is contasious and now I really got to expirement with it !!!

sad day for all!

Today is the last of gifed!I fell very sad,we may not see Ms.Zawis until next year.
My favorite thing was the silly sentences.It was super funny!I'll never forget gifed,
and the magic will never end.


By:Joshua

Gifted, a magical year of fun!

One of my favorite things that we did in Gifted was the Stories with Holes. Mrs. Zawis would tell us a part of a story with the middle of the story missing.





Preston

The last day of the gifted kingdom:-(

I'm a fan of all the gifted things but my favorite assignmemt was the stroop effect.The stroop effect is when your suppose to read a word thats colored but heres the kick,the color is diffrent than the word so say the word was blue it would be in red. by Sara

stories with holes BY ANDRES

Stories with holes is very fun you have to think of the silliest things you can.On the first time I heared stories with holes it was hard I couldn't think of anything but at the end it was funny. Stories with holes is the best thing I ever heared you shoud try it at home just write a story and leave out information that they have to figure out.

The Last Day of Gifted

It's been a great year at gifted. With Silly Sentences and Back to the Basics. But my favorite challenge has got to be Honey Robbery. The funnest brain puzzle of them all. I love it because it challenges your brain differently then regular acedemics. I'm sure everyone will miss gifted. With all happiness, Scout!

The last day of gifted

It's been a great year in gifted!I liked doing all the things I did in gifted even though I haven't been in gifted all year.Mostly I liked doing the paper wad game,stories with holes,and mythbusters.I really liked doing the toast drop and tring to see if yawning is contagios. I LOVE gifted! Brook

super duper silly sentences

When you think of silly snetences you might think of blah blah blah la-ti-da. But i'm not talking about giberish. I'm talking about real sentences.Funny ones like,"the other day, on Elmos World on sesame street Mr.Noodle was doing the noodle family dance!" Ms.Zawis would get a sentence and a situatuation such as a clown and a principle. Then she would give the two partners a silly sentence. The two partners would have to improvise and try to get the conversation to go their way so they can say their silly sentence.You give thumbs up when you say your sentence! I love acting so this game is the best game in the world for me!
Ally

LAST DAY OF GIFTED! :-(

I loved it when the crime sene investigator came. My favorite part when she came and made Megan get in a suit and gloves. She looked like a HUGE marshmalow! LOL! But the crime seen investigator also brout some neet gagets. Like this powder stuff where if you put it on a fingerprint and where these special glasses and you can see the fingerprint!

crime scene investagation/marshmallow girl aka Megan by Jack

I liked,out of the whole school year, when we did the crime scene investagations in Gifted. When the crime scene invesagator was talking about the whole kit and kaboodle for crime scene investagating she pulled outt this HUUUUUUUUGGGGGGE WHITE SUIT!!!! My friend Megan volunteered to wear the huge suit, what she didn't know was she looked like a huge marshmallow!!! LOL X2 Here is a pic of the marshmallow suit worn by a CSI agent.

Last Day Of GIFTED (And MAGIC) :-)

I will always remember our musical of pop and rock! That was the best day of Gifted I had ever had! There were acts like "Peggy Sue," "I'm a Believer,"by the Monkees, "Bohemian Rhapsody," and MORE! Some of us cracked kids up! This was a memory none of us would forget!! By James

The last day of gifted

It is the last day gifted until next year! It was a wonderful year with more wishes to come. My favorite thing we did this year will have to be the musical!! we took almost half of the year to practice! It was so fun singing and performing on stage infront of many people!! I was Peggy Sue in the song, Peggy Sue!! I had a wonderful year and i love my wonderful teacher, Mrs. Zawis!!

A Magical Year

This has been a magical year in the gifted castle and I'm sad that it's almost over.There has been many great things but one is my favorite and it's hard to choose.My favorite thing this year was mythbusters and dropping toast and making people yawn.I also loved all the field trips and most definitely Amelia Island and learning about architecture.But even though that was great my favorite is still Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy.
While dropping toast we were testing if toast falls butter side up every time and we found that that was true.And while yawning we tested if yawning was contagious.And what do you know, it wasn't.Well even though that test failed I still sad that it's the end of gifted and many things succeeded and isn't that what really is key!
With all happiness,
Carli

Jazz Concert

Ally Gondeck's


Mom is amazing!

Stories with Holes

Okay folks!
Here is the story that we worked on today. Post your questions in the comment area and I will do my best to respond in a timely manner. I will copy your questions and answer them in this post, so check to see what others have asked already. Good luck detectives- put those problem solving abilities to work!

Phillip can eat pears, cream, carrots, bread, and spinach but not apples, milk, hot dogs, soup or fish. Why?

Good questions Ally and Sara- In response to Sara's question, no, it isn't that he doesn't like the taste.

In response to Ally, no, it doesn't have anything to do with his teeth.
Good efforts!

Musical Magic!

I am so proud of all of the hard work that you put into this fantastic performance. It rocked! I think we have some official rock stars on our hands! Way to go! Enjoy the slide show.

A Mythbusting Day

Today we mostly focused one thing. Have you ever seen the show Mythbusters? It is two people trying to solve a rumor like yawning is contagous. Today we did our own little mythbusting with the rumor yawning is contagous. We each had a group of 2 people and we tested them with accordian triangle(where we make a shape out triangles of diffrent colors) We gave them directions on how to do the activity while yawning at random times. We had to see if our subjects yawned too. Our results didn't go as planned. Some groups asked for us to stop yawning!! I guess we have to try again next week!

We also did a couple stories with wholes and learned about Duke Ellington (a famous jazz musician) Next week we'll research a famous jazz musician and we'll pretend to be them by what we learned and have like a interview.

I can't wait until next week!!!

Ally

Dome construction

In "dome construction", we built a geodesic dome out of gumdrops & toothpicks.After we created the dome ,we got an award!We got 1 free gumdrop!Right after that we began to build straw houses!Unfortunately,only 1 house was completed!That was the end of a magical day!

Reported by James

"Arch"- itecture

Today in gifted, we built arches out of books and chairs. We used heavy books on the bottom to be a good base, and lighter books at the top. It was for our study about Architecture. We used 13 books total to make the arches. We had to buttress each side of the arch to help it stand. Buttressing is when you put pressure on it to help it stand.
Lahna

Our gifted day

Today in gifted we did secret sentances. Secret sentances is when their are two people.Each person picks a sentance. Then you pick a situation like an underwater conversation. Each person takes turns having a conversation. After about three or four times you would use your secret sentance. But the secret sentance must make sense with what is actually being talked about. You can push the conversation torwards what your secret sentance is and give a thumbs up when you used your secret sentance.
We also did Arches. In arches we took our body and used our hand to support us like an arch.Keeping the arch up is called buttresting.
What we also did was,we were handed a list with global monuments. We were also handed a piece of paper with a map of the world. Once you find the location of the monument in an atlas you must mark the correspondig number of the monument on your piece of paper with a map of the world.

Another fantastic Friday

Today we fisished another part of honey robbery,we figured outsome more clues. We also painted the t-bird (car) for our gifted musical,we painted it teal. Another fantastic thing we did today is we researched on Johannes Brahms.We also practiced our musical.today was great!

-megan

An Informative Day

Whew! We took in quite a bit of information today. In addition to having an at length discussion about genetics, we studied architectural columns including: Egyptian, Greek, and post and lintel designs. Pictures will be posted soon. Would you believe that a rolled up sheet of looseleaf paper could possibly hold multiple books on top of it? Most wouldn't, but our architects in training might beg to differ! I have a question for Ally- you posted a comment inquiring about a particular blog that you looked at recently. Which were blog were you referring to? I am excited to hear and see that you are exploring the technology universe. Way to go!
Don't forget to give your parents the genetics survey so that we can complete Punnett squares next week in class.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Zawis

Stories with Holes Solved!

Is Elaine a car?
Ally

Is Elaine a pot?
Megan

Great comments girls!!! Ally, you got it- Elaine is a car! Kudos to those who tried! I will post a new one tomorrow as I realized that I left my book at school. Oops!
On another note- I have a question to pose to all of you...if you had a choice of something that you would be interested in learning more about- any topic at all that is reasonable to learn about at school- what would it be? For example- I myself would pick neuroscience (basically the brain in other words) beacuse that topic fascinates me. What would you pick??? Grids to all those who leave comments!
--Mrs. Zawis--

A "Hole" Lot of Fun

Today we did alot of interesting things.First,we learned about Salvador Dali and made some art like his called surrrealism.Surrealism is kind of like abstract art.It is pretend like a dream.Also, we created an architeture project.We are studying a new unit about architecture.
Last week we learned about stories with holes and this week made up our own.Here are mine,Carli's,and Ally's stories.
Ally's: A man got locked in a ice room.There were big ice cubes everywere!! There was only one window near the ceiling. An hour later, another man came in the ice room he only saw a big puddle of water what happend to the man who got locked in?
Carli's:Rose and Daisy best friends were April and May so they went to meet them.Rose and Daisy had a snack.When they left April and May they were taller than when they came.Why were Rose and Daisy taller when they left?
From,
Carli and Ally

Stories with Holes

Okay folks- here is the story that we discussed during class. Please post your questions in the comment section and I will post them for everyone to see. Good luck!

"When Glen arrived, Elaine's body parts were scattered everywhere, although no blood had been shed."

Once we solve this one, I will post another.

-Mrs. Zawis

Stories wih Holes

For the hole storries we did today, was it foggy outside so she could have disappeared into the fog?
Ally

No! But good question Ally!
Mrs. Zawis