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Welcome
Back to SchoolTitus 2019-20
Mrs. Walls
•22nd year in CB•14th year teaching Pen•Former 1st and 2nd grade teacher•Titus/Linden•3 children (ages 12, 10, & 6)•Twitter @cbcwalls•Check website at the end of every week for updates.•SeeSaw
Primary Pen:
Thursday: 1:15-1:45; 2:25-3:10 & Friday:10:55am-11:400am
3rd Grade:
Thursday: 8:40-10:10 & Friday:2:15:- 3:10
4th Grade:
Monday: 10:00 – 11:05 & Friday: 8:40 – 10:00
5th Grade:
Monday: 8:45-10:15 and Tuesday: 2:40-3:05 and Thursday 10:55-11:40
6th grade:
Monday: 8:45-10:15 and Tuesday: 2:40-3:05 and Thursday 10:55-11:40
PEN Times
Primary PEN
Detective Science
❖ Solving mysteries
❖ Logic puzzles
❖ Breaking codes
❖Who Borrowed Mr.
Bear Day – Monday,
January 13th
Power Up
❖ How do machines
make life easier?
❖ Simple and complex
machines
❖ PEN Arcade (early
June)
Third Grade
Game On!
❖ Intro to game design
❖ History of gaming
❖ Game mechanics
❖ Create your own game
Architecture
❖ Study of architects and types of
architecture
❖ Design a facility
❖Walking tour of
Doylestown (Octo(
(October)
Fourth Grade
Creative
Problem Solving
❖Invention Convention –culminating activity (May)
❖Identify a problem and solve it with an invention
❖Much of the year is about collaboration and problem solving as a team
Fifth and Sixth Grade
Robotics
❖ Design a variety of
robots
❖ Evaluate the BEST
robot
❖ Use that robot to work
to solve a variety of
challenges
Changemaker Challenge
❖C the Opportunity
❖B the Change
❖Work as a team to solve a local or global issue
❖Present the solution to the problem at Robotics Day (late May, early June)
Conferences
❖ Individual GIEP at annual date – check with your teacher if you would like to know when your child’s GIEP is due
❖ Parental request – phone or in-person meetings
❖ Because we are meeting individually for GIEPs this year, we will typically only attend conferences at parent or teacher request, and based upon our availability.