Friday, August 30, 2013
Beginning Our Global Journey with 2nd and 3rd
The students had to decide which three states to eliminate from the United States and recreate the map.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
2nd Grade Reading Journaling
In ELA 2nd grade learned how to describe characters using character traits.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Sunday, August 25, 2013
First and Second Week of School Activities
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| 5th Grade Science - Can you fit the pieces of "data" together to make sense? Now, what happens when new data/evidence is discovered? How does this change our thinking? |
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| 3rd Grade Science - Planting "Grassy-Haired Creatures"! How long will it take the rye grass to grow 2 inches? Students learn about scientific processes. |
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| Planting "Grassy-haired Creatures"! Soon, we will give our creatures smashing hair cuts! |
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| Mr. Wonsidler's 2nd grade Social Studies class. |
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| Sarah Strawberry, Robert Redwood, Polka Dot Patti...these are just a few names of our class pet pals. Each student planted 2 seeds of the same kind and hypothesized about how colored water might impact the plant. They are learning about variables and the traditional scientific method. |
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| What is on the bottom of the mystery cube? Fourth grade science students are learning the art of observation by looking for patterns and raising "good" questions. Will we ever know for sure what is on the bottom of the cube? Only if Mrs. B lets us look! |
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| 2nd Grade academy students "buddy" with another Pierremont class to build friendships and community. |
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| Mrs. B's 5th grade students share what they learned about a chosen math topic. |
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| 5th grade science students learn about tree rings and what they have to do with studying past weather and climate patterns. |
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| 4th grade science students build models of the continental and oceanic crust to learn about land formations. |
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| Painting our models and labeling the land formations. |
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| 5th Grade Science - How are these words connected? This was a pre-assessment activity to see how much the students already knew about concepts related to the carbon cycle. Students were asked to create a web using the given words to show relationships, etc. |
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| 5th Grade Building Thinking Skills - Can you build a tower this tall using only 10 sheets of paper? Students learn the power of teamwork and creative problem solving! |
Friday, August 23, 2013
2nd Grade Exercising to Fit With Fred!
We are getting our brains ready to learn before creative and critical thinking:
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Visual Mathematics
A 5th grader explains her systematic process
for finding all the squares.
Students created and tested formulas
to find the number of squares in
complex shapes on Wednesday.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Monday, August 19, 2013
Friday, August 16, 2013
4th Joins in the fun!
Can you solve David's mystery? Arrange 12 toothpicks in a 2 x 2 grid. Then by moving 2 toothpicks can you make 7 squares? No toothpicks can be removed!!
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Math Pretesting
All Academy students participated in online math pretesting. If needed, pretesting will continue tomorrow; and classes should be formed by next week.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
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