FIRST GRADE: Inventions

The inspiration and the perspiration. Let's study Thomas Edison. And then invent ourselves.

SECOND GRADE: Toys and Roller Coasters

Let's dissect and reverse engineer them. Let's design and create them. Let's imagine!

THIRD GRADE: Inventors

They say he wrangled lightning and invented bifocals. And that was just before breakfast. We'll start with Benjamin Franklin and move on to Da Vinci...

FOURTH GRADE: The Wright Three

Architecture, ghosts, pentonimoes, geometry, mysterious talismans, invisible men... One novel has them all.

FIFTH GRADE: Weslandia

What if you were in charge of rebuilding civilization from the ground up? Well now you are...

Friday, August 30, 2013

Welcome to GT in 2013!

Dear Parents and Students,
I'm so excited about kicking this year off. As you can see from the title of our blog this year, the theme is "Inventors, Creators, Dreamers and Architects." At each grade level we will be focusing on something to do with that theme. For information on specific grade-levels, click the "Themes" button above and select the grade level you're curious about.

Another side theme that we will focus on in every grade level is "Word Play." These will be fun, quirky challenges and projects that will build our verbal intelligence, our vocabulary and most definitely our sense of humor.

We will start classes the week of September 9. Are you excited? Until then, please click around the blog and get familiar with how it's laid out. It will be a busy place for us this year.

Parents, consider subscribing to the blog by email (on right) to get a little update whenever a new post is up.

In the meantime, to get you inspired with a spirit of invention and dreaming, take (another) look at the amazing video: "A Day Made of Glass."