Great Improvement Today!!!!!

Refocus and reflection = themes of the Rube work today. Your child has a paper for you to sign that's grounded in gifted benchmarks. :)

Goals and Reflection

This week: Students are setting daily goals for their Rube work as well as reflecting on their productivity, collaboration, and citizenship.

Developing Important Skills

Rube Goldberg creations have been just as important of a lesson on machines as on teamwork and persistence. Communication and collaboration!

Today's accomplishments:

-Donated items are bagged. Need to sort them 1/3 for Ronald McDonald House. 2/3 for Seton House
-Another morning annoucement is ready
-Recorded segments to make a movie for annoucements
-Made up a slogan- still deciding how to use it
-Donation boxes going again- on the stage




What we are happy with:
-How the movie is coming together
-Annoucements aren't the same
-Donations we are getting



What we want to change:
-How little we are getting done




Agenda for next week:
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Time to Reflect and Make a Plan!

Divide and Conquer

The group broke into groups to work on:
-posters for their collection drive
-morning announcement scripts
-a field trip proposal


Students shifted their plan as they decided against a contest for donations and moved to a collection drive.

Working Hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Today we worked on:

• making a poster for the Seton & Ronald McDonald house

-preparing the boxes for our contest!

-writing the script for the morning news

-writing a proposal to Dr. Hedrick for approval of our work

-calling Seton House

-creating a flier

-compiling donation lists

We all worked hard on different projects to accomplish our goal!

Caption this!

Our First Meeting

Where do you begin with a project like this? 

First, we discussed what we already knew about the organization and why we chose it. 

We know we want to help the organization....... But how?

Second, we determined the best place to go next was research. 

After, a little while we came back together to share. 

We added new information to our list. 

This led to us brainstorming possible products. We determined our focus for tomorrow. 

We are excited and ready!!!!!!!!!

Welcome!

We are excited to begin our Quest! Our group will work with Seton House and Ronald McDonal House.