IMA Explorers Update!

Team S received their username and passwords for our wiki today and Team M will receive their information tomorrow.  If any IMA students want to work on writing projects from home and forget their passwords and usernames, they can email me and I'll be in touch as soon as possible.

Please use your child's username and password to view our site, rather than my emailed information so I can collect information about how many families use the site outside of school hours.

Thank you for your support!  Check out the IMA Explorers and their writing projects!

Discovering Ideas and Opinions

The IMA kids are writing a variety of articles to publish in their upcoming magazine.  Conducting surveys and presenting the results has quickly become a writing form that interests the children.  A writer creates a purposeful question that will help the writer and our readers better understand our learning community.  Favorite recess activities, birthday treat options, and literary genre selections are a few of the recent survey topics.  Once the question and purpose are established, the writer conducts interviews, collects the data and creates an info-graphic to share with others.  The final step is analyzing and writing observations about the results.  Children also add their opinions describing how they might use this information in the future. 

The integration of math and writing makes Mrs. M. happy while Mrs. S jumps for joy over the authentic writing.  The children LOVE getting to know one another while gaining valuable literacy strategies based on their friendships with peers.  We must say this is a win-win-win situation!  The IMA kids look forward to sharing their publication in the near future.