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...
Good afternoon, During reading, the kids have been focusing on being avid readers. They have been practicing their reading with both fiction and nonfiction books. They continue to have reading playdates. They love to play school, where one partner is a teacher and the other is...
