Couldn't Be More Proud

Yasher koach to third grade for leading a beautiful Rosh Chodesh Adar service.

I truly enjoyed seeing the class shine while demonstrating their creativity and presentation abilities during their interpretation of the parsha. 

Thank you to Ms. Wisselman and Morah Mazi for all of their hard work with third grade and also to the parents who made our class oneg possible.

A huge thank you to Mrs. Rabin and Mrs. Fries for volunteering yesterday. We wouldn't have been able to start building the wonders without them!

Third grade is in the design phase of Project. They brainstormed many different ideas as to make their Wonder of the World environment come alive. Sketches of their Wonders have been drawn. Lists of necessary materials for their creation in addition to props and costumes were written on shared documents. Materials have been purchased and are beginning to be put to use. The class is working diligently to construct their wonders as well as practice how they will explain their model. I am very pleased with their level of enthusiasm.

Hoover Dam Engineers

It was a wonderful week with 4th grade in the southwest!  Learning about the building of the Hoover Dam was the most exciting adventure for many children last week. Students acted as engineers to solve three problems: what to do with the Colorado River during construction, what shape to make the dam, and how to harden so much cement. After reading about each of the problems, the engineering groups discussed and drew solutions. The groups presented their solution for each of the problems; we compared them and talked about what the engineers actually did. I was very pleased with the level of enthusiasm.
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FETC

Hi from FETC! The Florida Educational Technology Conference has left me inspired and eager to incorporate fresh ideas into our curriculum. 
Next Friday, 5th grade will use Big Huge Labs to create Explorer Trading Cards based on their learning from each other's Exploration Log Projects. Here's an example:

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Rural, Suburban, and Urban Communities

We've missed you! Unfortunately, our recent photos are gone, so here's a little bit of what we've been up to lately.

Third grade read about housing, jobs, recreation, and transportation in rural and urban communities. Students worked in pairs to glean information to record on the class' color-coded venn diagram. The children then created these dioramas of each of the three communities. Ultimately, the class decided that there are many positive aspects about living in both rural and urban areas, in addition to the suburban communities that they are familiar with. 

Simulating Population Density- Wordless(ish?!) Wednesday

Of the U.S.

Of New York City
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Whats going on in...

Third Grade

Third grade continues to research their wonders this month: Great Wall of China Mt. Kilimanjaro Niagara Falls

Third grade creating landform mini booklets:

Third graders playing a landform pictures memory grade: 

Fourth Grade

Fourth grade's manufacturing experience in Hershey, Pennsylvania during their study of the Northeast Region

Fifth Grade

Fifth grade becoming underwater archaeologists to learn about exploration to the New World

Divers swimming from the sunken ship to their research boat Swimming to pick up artifacts such as an astroglobe and tobacco from the ship Learning why these artifacts were important to explorers
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Back to School Dance Party- Wordless Wednesday

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