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!