Kids Vote!

   Glenridge 5th graders led the Kids Vote program!  Students filled out their Voter's ID card, checked in at the voters table, and then voted in a private booth!  The results from Glenridge Kids Vote will be posted on Wednesday!

Non-fiction Fun!

   We have been examining non-fiction texts, such as articles, with a partner.  We are focusing on finding main ideas and supporting details.  Partners take turn using their palm to "hold" the main idea and fingers to name supporting details!

Geography Jeopardy!

   It was review day for our Social Studies test!  We played a fun game of Geography Jeopardy!

Enviroscape

   We explored the effects of humans to the environment one more time today!  Today we used an Enviroscape to simulate a neighborhood, factory, construction site, farm, and highway.

River Experience by Luke

Today we did a land and water project , so we had groups and we had a million dollars to

spend on building something.  When we put the river back together, we learned the pollution flows with the river.  The Mississippi River is an example of this.  The pollution from St. Louis and the other cities along the Mississippi River flows to New Orleans.  After we learned what everyone built, we had to modify our creation.  It could not take pollution so it was a lot of thinking but It was still fun.  I learned that water can be polluted.

Who "owns" a River?

   Today we experienced ways humans impact the environment by zooming in on human effects to water.  I began by telling the class we won huge prize- a river!  To be fair, I divided the river up equally and allowed small groups to decide what we should build along the river.  I prompted them to dream big and let them go without a price tag!  Here is how the river turned out- we have a Sports World, a Tree-House Hotel, a Super Game Land, a zoo, a National Park, and more!

   As each group presented their plans, we discussed how they might impact the river.  For example, the Sports World planned a cool complex, but left out trash cans!  We placed beads in the water depending on the pollution.

   This led us to a conversation about river cities- such as St. Louis.  I mapped out the river as if it was the Mississippi- we placed Itasca at the north, St. Louis in the center, and New Orleans south.  We talked about the cities north of St. Louis contribute to the pollution we see in the Mississippi, as well as how we pollute the river here and so on to New Orleans.
   The final part of this lesson was focused on how we can make changes to our plans to minimize pollution!

 

Happy Halloween!

Thank you to all the parent volunteers who organized and provided a fun-filled Halloween party!  We had so much fun!