How It's Made

Today we looked at our second How it's Made video.  When we watch these videos we are thinking about the land, the labor and the capital that are being used to make the products.  The video we watched today was on how baseballs are made.  I have to admit it was rather interesting.

The class had already watched a video on how bicycle seats are made.  When we watch the videos the class throws their hands in the air and shakes them when they see an example of land, labor or capital.  We are going to keep talking about economics the rest of the week and discuss how and why budgets are made (a lesson I wish I had learned in fourth grade).

We are also took our first MAP assessment today.  You should have received a letter explaining these assessments in the Friday Folder.  This is a new type of assessment that our district is using to measure student growth.  The assessment was given on a computer in our computer lab.  The class took the reading assessment today and will take the math and language assessment over the next two weeks. 

I thought the class did an amazing job of working hard on the assessment.  We will be sharing these results with these assessments as soon as they are made available to us.  If you have any questions about the assessment, please feel free to call and ask.

Assessments not the most interesting blog post of our year.  Hope you are having a great week.