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Enjoying the rice-a-roni and chicken taste testing.
Ballroom Dance lessons are happening now and some of the 7th and 8th grade TAG students are participating.
All TAG students went to two First Stage performances, Gossamer and Witness. For each they read the book and discussed the play.
Some of the TAG students chose to participate in the Mock Newbery. This group read from a list of great new books published in 2008. They met and discussed which of these books would be their choice for the Newbery medal. D. C. Everest students met with FLW students via skype to compare their thoughts on the books they had read.
All the TAG students worked with web 2.0 applications such as animoto which creates music videos from uploaded photos, voki which allows students to give a voice to an avatar they create, and google documents which allows them to share the same document amongst a group.
This is one sample of a voki called Who Knew! Each student gave five statements about himself, four true and one false, and the rest of us guessed which was false:
A good activity for getting to know each other better!
Seventh and eighth grade students learned to shoot and edit a short video. For this project each chose a word and then created a video to define the word and what it means to them.
Eighth graders learned a bit more about research by trying to solve a problem. One group chose to explore which cooking technique is best for preparing chicken. Rachel and Kayla cooked boneless skinless chicken breasts in 5 different ways and conducted a blind taste test to rate which one people liked best. The most popular was the sauted chicken.
