Monday, February 29, 2016
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Rome and Salt Occupy Us This Week
In World History the 5th/6th graders are studying ancient Rome. We learned about the Roman government and did an activity that had the students divide up into the Senate and Assembly ~ trying to pass a law agreed upon by all...turned out harder than they thought!!
The Earth Science class are studying the oceans. This lab had them determining the difference in density depending upon factors such as heat, cold, fresh and salt water.
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Monday, February 15, 2016
Keeping Busy into the New Year
Our study of Ancient Greece brought out the actors and actresses in the classroom. Students had fun creating masks to depict the emotions of their characters in the Greek fables.
In science the students learned about packaged food. In a lab they had to determine how much of the total weight was the actual food and how much was the packaging.
Of course, students had to guess first...a few were right!
Along with packaging we learned about the main crop for each of the 50 states. Students were assigned states, researched to find the most important crop for each state, printed pictures of these important crops, and then glued these pictures to a big map of the United States. This photo was taken when most were done gluing and were just simply chatting away about their findings. Love it! I think the most overwhelming discovery is there are other crops besides corn and beans!!
The middle school students and teachers can get a bit spoiled by all the sharing the kindergarten and preschool students do! We were treated to golden stars, goldfish, and God because the preschools students were learning about the letter "G". On the 100th day of school the kindergarten students made us cookies ~ Yum!
Students in grades preschool through 8th enjoyed the annual skating fun for our Valentine's Day Party ~ a few bruises, some cold toes, but lots of laughs and smiles!!
The $3 post Christmas special is ready to be in full bloom...and, my nephew born 3 weeks ago.
He comes with a full supply of babysitters!
Monday, February 1, 2016
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