2nd grade students explored a virtual trip to Ellis Island as part of their Immigration reading unit. They were tasked at answering questions and discovering what the building looks like today.
1st grade earned their PBIS reward and enjoyed lunch outside as a class with their teacher!
1st and 2nd enjoyed the beautiful weather together and did a nature walk for Earth Day!
1st grade has been learning about shapes in math and got to explore with pattern blocks and build/ make their own shapes!
1st grade made silly stories today using their heart/tricky words (words they have to just know, can't sound out) as 2 smaller groups for reading!
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3rd grade was busy coding "finch bots" today in order to discover what kinds of rights people have in America.
1st grade exploring 3D shapes in math! They had to sort them on similar things and then tried to guess the shapes.
1st grade enjoyed getting to do some reading together with their 4th grade buddy!
Kindergarten has been learning about flat and solid shapes. Today, they used their knowledge of solid shapes to create a model of our classroom.
Kindergarten has been learning about explorers in reading. In science, they were challenged to work with a partner and create their own ships that would sail their explorer across the ocean. They learned about the parts of a ship, decided which materials would work best, and got busy building.
Kindergarten testing their ships. All of our ships floated and made it safely across the ocean!
5th grade took advantage of the beautiful weather and spent reading time outside today!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
