PreK

This week Preschool is studying Transportation and Gardening. Ms. Jenny’s class talked about types of transportation, which students have been in each type, and what each type needs in order to move. Ms Reva’s class discussed what plants need, different types of gardens, and planted some seeds! 

Kindergarten

This week the Kindergarten students in Ms LaGiglia’s class learned how to tie dye. They made their special shirts for the upcoming zoo field trip.

We did a science experiment with flowers and enjoyed building towers.

First Grade

In first grade we accomplished this: 

1). In reading, we learned through nonfiction text the process of getting our food from farm to table. 

2). In writing, we learned about journal writing to record events and improve our sentence mechanics. 

3). In math, we completed and reviewed our entire addition unit and will be taking our test tomorrow. 

4). In social studies, we learned about family differences and similarities when speaking to activities and members. 

5). In phonics, we learned about 3-consonant blends. 

Second Grade

In second grade this week we are trying a new classroom management activity. The students got a robot and we are going to earn different faces, shirts, and shoes to add to their robot. This will be a fun and engaging activity as the students get to decorate and earn different items for the robot. The students have earned their different faces for the robots today. They also named their robots and wrote It on the desk for everyone to see. They seem excited for this new activity. 

Third Grade

Third graders doing some fun A-Z activities to count down to the last day of school. B:Books and Beach towels. F:  Flashlight reading. G: Game Day

Fourth Grade

Fourth graders got in a little movement while practicing parallel and perpendicular lines. And…three more students moved up a level in XtraMath.

When you have so many smarties they don’t all fit in one picture! 🙂

Fifth Grade

5th graders having fun reviewing lines of latitude and longitude before they take their social studies I-learn test next week!

STEM

4th graders spent time this week making a model eye. They learned how the eyes work. Specifically, they learned how our eyes use light in order to be able to see. Our fourth grade scientists not only made a model of the eye, but it was a model that actually works like the real eye. The students also learned that our eyes create an upside down image, and our brain turns the image back to being right side up. In addition to learning all about the eye this week and all the parts of the eye, the students also took time to take ownership of their own learning by creating a rubric to help them see if they mastered the concepts that they needed to learn this week.

This week our 2nd grade biologists did multiple experiments with plants so that they could learn about what plants need. They observed experiments that proved that plants need water and that plants need dirt. Earlier in the week our 2nd graders planted seeds and are conducting an experiment to see if plants really do need sunlight or not. The students put half of their planted seeds in sunlight and the other half in a dark place. The students will check back, once the seeds have germinated, to see if the sunlight made a difference. They will check them a few times as they are young plants as well. As we finished the week. our 2nd graders also learned how to figure out how much water different plants need.

STEM Student of The Week: Reese Jacobs

You can always find Reese working hard and asking questions. You can see that she really enjoys learning. She loves STEM class and is always trying to find answers to questions and looks forward to what we are learning each week. We love her joy for learning. Great job Reese!