City Planners

We started planning a city on graph paper to later build using our inch paper. 

Getting it all built to scale. 

Putting it together sometimes caused some problems. 

They liked putting it all together. 

Ready for the city planner, Joe Hurst to come and see us!

They shared their proposed city plans.

He stayed to describe his job and also answer questions. It was a ball!! Can't wait to do it next year. 

Research Reports

These kids were ready to share their research reports with the class over the American Revolution unit. So proud of them!!!

Circuit Time

They love building circuits every year. We build simple circuits and parallel circuits. So much fun!

Circuit Time

They love building circuits every year. We build simple circuits and parallel circuits. So much fun!

Acid or Base?

Our annual Acids and Bases lab with cabbage water as the indicator. The kids love the smell!! 

Shiny Pennies

One of our chemical reaction experiments! Shiny copper!!

An Attitude of Gratitude

When we came back from Christmas break, we began our Gratitude Journals. These kids will remember this for a very long time. They grew in their thankfulness, I really believe. To celebrate, we chose our favorite thing we were most thankful for and shared. It was  very powerful. 

Fluency Friday Fun

These kids loved playing our new dice games on their facts. Some worked with subtraction and multiplication. 

American Revolution Celebrations

These few finished their research for their poster work to share and teach about the American Revolution. 

Moved on to the Writing Celebration as they shared their favorite chapter of their research report for writing. 

Human Body Fun

Human body jigsaw today! 

They Love to Argue

Is the giving tree strong or weak?

Listening to our debate partner

Caucusing as a group

Debate is on! 

Preparing for rebuttal 

Redcoats are preparing for battle

Colonists are preparing too

Blake was quite the actor 

Yes, the colonists should fight King George for freedom!

No, we do not support the war!!

They loved debating!!!

Sharing in Many Forms

We invited Mrs. Haynes' third grade class from next door to share our Historical Fiction stories we published from a few topics: Native Americans, Colonial, or Westward Expansion. 

In the next unit, we began research on the American Revolution. Here we are teaching our partner what we had learned so far on the first bend of reading: Before 1775.