Spring Break was a great mental rest for the mind. When we came back, we were ready to finish our last remaining few weeks. On Monday and Tuesday, we worked with partners on our Numerical Expressions Clock. Only using four 4's, we had to create numerical expressions to fit each hour of the clock, numbers 1-12. It was a challenging task, especially creating expressions for 10 and 11. We whined, complained, argued, said it was too hard, couldn't be done, and that it was impossible. Ms. Goldy just smiled and laughed and said "Yes it can!" We got frustrated. We got mad. But we didn't give up. The only help Ms. Goldy would give us was to remind us to use brackets, braces, and parentheses, the correct order of operations and remember our exponents and square roots. When she offered 10 bonus points to the first person to correctly solve for 10, we finally started rolling in the answers. Even though this project was hard and challenged us, it required us to think and we LOVED it. Ms. Goldy said her favorite part was hearing all the "OH, OH, I GOT IT's!" :)
Our Proficiency Board with some of our wonderful projects.
On Friday, we began the day by walking to the Bath County Middle School for our 6th grade orientation. There we got to meet the assistant principal Ms. Back, the guidance counselor Ms. Lewis, and many of the teachers we will have next year as 6th graders. We got to tour the school, go through lunch, and rotate to get a quick overview of what it will be like at BCMS. We are super excited to be a part of BCMS next school year.
When we returned from BCMS we finished up the kickball tournament that we started before Spring Break, as part of our MAP incentive. Ms. Goldy's class beat Ms. Joseph's class with a final score of 7-2 to win the championship!
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