Purple mash @home!

KSPS students are experiencing a new tool that is allowing them to continue their e-learning at home.

It's Purple Mash time!

Purple Mash is a new creative online space that hosts interactive activities, creative tools, and games for all subjects to support and inspire creative and interactive learning.
I, as a math and science teacher, started to implement purple mash in my classes. I created accounts for all of my fifth graders; every student had his/her unique username and password. And that’s when the journey of interactivity begun!
We used different tools, played games, created projects, science stories, graphs… and much more.

We used this game while studying about Factors

                    

We used this game while studying about Integers

View a science story about "Nimo", the fish.


 What’s beneficial about Purple Mash is that it is an online tool; my students are continuing their learning anywhere and anytime. Stay tuned to show you how my students are using purple mash at their homes! 

An animal habitat in our classroom!

Students in a hands-on science activity will remember the material better, feel a sense of accomplishment when the task is completed, and be able to transfer that experience easier to other learning situations. For this reason, fifth graders decided to model different vertebrate and invertebrate animals using clay, cardboards, and many other materials. Then, they decorated the animals they created in a corner in their classroom and now they are ready to answer any question about this lesson!

From Ling Moor with Love!

Grade 4 students were elated to receive plenty of colorful materials sent from our partner school in UK, Ling Moor Academy. A month ago, we sent our UK friends plenty of souvenirs and posters. Now it’s our turn to receive colorful drawings, postcards, and letters wishing us a happy year! We decorated our classroom with these materials to always remember our friends over the seas.

Materials we sent

 

 

Materials we received

 

Excited to send, Elated to receive!

Count, Buy, Eat!!

Grade 4 students had an interesting activity that allowed them to set their own meal in a specific budget. This activity involved students using their math computing skills and their science skills too!

The activity started when students were divided into group of 4 members each. Each group had a specific diner menu and a specific amount of money. Students used this amount of money to form a meal that contains all the food groups (students used knowledge about food pyramid acquired in the science classes).

 

 

This activity allowed students to develop and strengthen their thinking, problem solving, cooperating, and decision making strategies; they needed a specific time to plan, adapt others opinions, evaluate their thinking, and take the appropriate decision.

 Finally, students used their artistic skills to draw the meals they formed.