5th grade took advantage of the beautiful weather and spent reading time outside today!
5 days ago, Riley Flint
5th grade students working outside.
1st grade has been working with measuring in math! We have been using different things like small and big paper clips, different size cubes and string to measure different things in our classroom and pieces of tape on the floor!
7 days ago, Brittany Disney
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1st grade had some 2nd graders come in to read a book and give them some kindness challenges! Challenges were as simple as write a note to a teacher to helping the custodian clean! They loved it!
8 days ago, Brittany Disney
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1st grade has been learning about stars and constellations so they got in groups and made constellations and got to see them glow in dark in the gym!
14 days ago, Brittany Disney
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1st grade had some visitors from the extension office for read across Iowa. They read a book that they each got a copy of and then planted sweet corn! We are keeping the sweet corn at school to watch it grow!
15 days ago, Brittany Disney
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Last week, Kindergarten kicked off "Read Across Iowa" by reading about strawberries! They did a guided drawing activity, and also got to compare the seeds of other fruits to the seeds of a strawberry. They used their 5 senses to explore each of the fruits and got to taste all of the yummy fruit Mrs. Craighton brought!
27 days ago, Cassidy Riley
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1st grade listened to some Apple stories and an Apple farm for read across Iowa and then got to taste test different apples. We tasted pink lady, Granny Smith, red delicious, cosmic crisp, and golden delicious! As a class red delicious was the winner.
27 days ago, Brittany Disney
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On Friday, 5th grade students observed gravity and inertia! They used hot wheels cars and a makeshift racetrack to study how the height and mass of an object influences its motion.
28 days ago, Riley Flint
Students testing height and mass.
1st grade has been learning about volcanos, fossils, 3 types of rocks so we enjoyed some fun, engaging activities. Used starbursts to make different rocks, made our own fossils, and watched lava in a cup!
30 days ago, Brittany Disney
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1st earned PBIS reward and had blanket and stuffed animal day!
30 days ago, Brittany Disney
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Preschool had SO much fun playing outside!!
about 1 month ago, Heather Koenen
4th grade was fortunate enough to have generational dairy farmers visit today to connect what we've been learning to real people and careers! The Hofmeisters visited CAL and did an AMAZING job teaching about how dairy farming has changed over time. Our students had many questions for our visitors to better understand how milk and other dairy products get to them, from farm to table. Thank you so much for coming!
about 1 month ago, Bethany Currier
On Friday, 5th grade earned a class PBIS reward! Students were able to use the spheros and VR headsets in the CELL!
about 1 month ago, Riley Flint
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Students using our VR headsets!
Students using the spheros.
1st grade learned about sedimentary (layers formed over time), igneous (formed from heat), and metamorphic ( formed from pressure) rocks. We also were able to explore some sediments (sand and soil) in water and see what happens!
about 1 month ago, Brittany Disney
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1st grade enjoyed Ag in the classroom last week learning about dairy cows and making milk!
about 1 month ago, Brittany Disney
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1st grade has been learning about the Earth and its layers. We have used rocks, soil, and clay to look at layers and an egg to represent different layers!
about 1 month ago, Brittany Disney
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about 1 month ago, Danielle Brood
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1st grade valentines party!
about 2 months ago, Brittany Disney
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The Milk Tasting 🐄🥛 in 4th grade was a hit! Our conversations about selective breading, butterfat content, the food supply chain, and diverse careers in agriculture was topped off with a sampling of different fat contents in milk! We had a mixed review of the best kind of milk, but some of our favorite jobs included veterinarians, who help keep the cows healthy, animal nutritionists, who help create diets for cows to produce the most/ best milk, and food stylists, who help make sure the dairy products look 'good enough to eat' for advertisements!🧀🍦
about 2 months ago, Bethany Currier
1st grade has been talking about adjectives. We got to eat grapes and starbursts and then describe them!
about 2 months ago, Brittany Disney
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