We had a lovely field trip to Phillip Foster Farm on Tuesday. Students not only got to see and hear about what life was like for the pioneers, they got to experience it with some wonderful hands-on activities. Students ground their own cornmeal, pulled a hay bale, organized the contents of a wagon, partner...
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Week Thirty- Four in Room Twenty-Two
Notes From Room 12
The year is quickly wrapping up. Students are having a blast with our last unit, Balance and Motion. We ended our week last week making our own mobiles. After learning about balance and stability last week, we move onto getting objects to spin and rotate. First, we made our own tops using drinking straws...
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Ms. Kennedy’s 3rd Grade
We’ve had another fruitful week of activity in Room 17. There have been final math assessments in multiplication, division, time, attributes of 3-D geometric shapes, perimeter & area, estimation, and of course, fractions. Fortunately, IXL Math will be available all summer long. I am strongly encouraging every child to practice a minimum of one...
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Class Notes From Ms. Vasquez
It is hard to believe the year is coming to an end. We are wrapping several projects this week. The students finished reading their Book Club Novels. Now, they are working diligently on a poster that will include the important elements of the story. They will have their last Book Talk on Friday. They...
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Music Notes – June 3
This is a short reminder to students in Booming Beats, that our last performance is this Friday @ 6:00 for the PTA End of the Year Picnic and Book Sale. The Beats will be kicking off the festivities right at 6:00, so I’m asking performers to arrive at 5:40 to warm up and help...
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News from Mr. Post’s Classroom
Last week students finished the “Water, Water Everywhere” unit by playing Powerpoint “Water Cycle Jeopardy”. This week students are sharing their writing passages about their favorite water activities. We are also working on a project for Writing and Art that is a review of memories of the past year. Students are brainstorming ideas under...
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News from 5th grade – Ms. Jen
I hope you saw the schedule that I posted on my webpage sjen1.blogspot.com last week. I also sent home a hard copy of the schedule last Friday. The students have projects, tests, and assignments due almost every day for the next 2 weeks. Please help your child meet these deadlines. Since school is ending...
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Mr. Colvin’s 4th Grade Class Notes for June 3-7, 2013
Is it June already? Where did the year go? We have two very action-packed weeks of school left, so buckle your seat belts and here we go! First up are the back-to-back field trips on Monday and Tuesday of this week. I sent out a separate email to all parents with details By the...
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Week Thirty- Three in Room Twenty-Two
We had such a blast with Oregon Trail last week! All sorts of exciting things happened- some wagon trains found abandoned oxen, some wagon trains befriended Native American tribes, and a few students slipped when signing their names on Chimney Rock and “broke their arms.” These unlucky students spent all day Thursday wearing a...
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Notes From Room 12
This week we began our Balance and Motion science theme. Students began the first unit, Balance, by learning what tricks their cardboard crayfish could do. First, they tried to balance the crayfish on their fingers. Students experimented with the center of gravity as they adjusted the placement of their fingers on the belly of...
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