Happy Friday Everyone!   Here’s the weekly update on our Grade Five experience at Lincoln School:   In math, we hit the ground running in our first unit. We tackled area using a brand new method to us called “tiling.” It wasn’t everyone’s favorite, that’s why we also reinforced...

Happy Friday Everyone! This is just a short update on our Grade Five experience here at Lincoln School: In math, we have dusted off our multiplication skills and jumped into our first unit on area and volume. It even includes finding the area of rectangles with fractional...

Will It Float? Today the Grade Fives tackled to the idea of buoyancy by constructing a boat using only tin foil. We planned and tested out our designs by adding washers until the boat sank. The objective of today's activity was for the students to...

How High Can You Go? Grade Five welcomed in the new school year by accepting the challenge of constructing towers out of only paper and tape.  Given forty minutes or so, students planned and carried out an investigation into constructing towers that were as tall as possible...

Good afternoon, The kids have been working on poetry for the past 2 weeks. Each day they are introduced to a new poem which they read with rhythm. They read poems called "Stung" and "Spring Celebration" and did some activities that went along with them. They really...

On Tuesday of this week, second and third graders from Paramount School visited us and met with G1 and G2 to work on our service learning projects. Paramount School is just around the corner from us and shares some of the same pollution effects as we...