This week we continued learning about the Oregon Trail heading West in social studies. We are even pretending to be the pioneers on this long, hard, journey! We have written diary entries, faced frontier fates, and made trail decisions.

We are also are moving on the Hacker Trail. This picture is right above this caption.

We started a new project a few weeks ago called Personalized Learning. Each day, we research our question and update our site. We write the date and "link" the website to the note page, we put the notes that we find in the page that we linked in the document. One picture is right below this with a student putting a suggestion on the "Help & Wanted" board. This is when you write a question that you have about your project, and stick it on the Help Wanted board. Then, when somebody gets the chance, they can go up and put a suggestion for that question.

PERSONALIZED LEARNING

This week we started a new project based on our interests and what you want to reaserch. This new program is called Personalized Learning. We are developing "yard" questions and researching them. Students have picked topics from constellations to keeping healthy. We have enjoyed the new program that inspires us to learn more about the things we are interested in and to increase our knowledge in the future.

WEX WRITING

We just finished our response to fiction essay based on the book The Liberation of Gabriel King. Students picked a character and a trait that the character had. Then they wrote about two moments when the characters were showing their trait. Then, we typed them on the computers.

SOCIAL STUDIES

This week we selected wagon train leaders and were sorted into wagon trains. We also packed our wagons and got ready to start the journey heading west. Next week we will be acting out a pioneer simulation and moving across the Hacker Trail. We will have a competition to see who reaches Oregon first! Good luck wagon trains!