Rocks and Minerals Field Trip

We had an absolutely beautiful day at Wequiock Falls, Bay Shore Park, and the Quarry! I hope your child came home with much to share about our day! We learned many cool things about the sedimentary rocks in our area and our guide from Fallen Timbers, Sarah, pointed out how lucky we are to be able to have this field trip because of the area we live in. The waterfall was wild! Those rocks are part of the Niagara escarpment. We also did a cliff walk to the shore line and took the bus down into the quarry to and learned where rocks are all around us!

 

The Cat's Pajamas!

We had an awesome assembly with The Cat's Pajamas vocal group. They will be performing at DePere high school tonight at 6:30! You should definitely go check them out!

Fairy Tale Madness!

It's that time of year again!!!

MARCH MADNESS....or should I say, Fairy Tale Madness!

We are in our Traditional literature unit reading a ton of great fairy tales and fractured fairy tales. We will be voting on these 16 fairy tales until we narrow it down to the top fairy tale!

During this time, the class will have the chance to use a green screen and create a short book talk or ad for their fairy tale in order to convince others to choose their book! Some of these book talks will be shown on the morning announcements!

Stay posted for more updates on our winning tales! 

Chemists in the Making

We are busy with our Chemistry unit. The class has lab partners and each group is performing different experiments on each of their 5 different mystery chemicals. So far, we have done a water drop test, a water mixture and filtering test, a vinegar test, and today we performed our iodine experiment.

The class is having a blast observing what happens with each of our chemicals. By the end of the unit, we will have enough observations and clues in order to be able to reveal the identity of our 5 mystery chemicals!

Published Authors!

Today our books were delivered! The class was so excited to be able to read our class book! If you would still like to order one or order one as a gift, please let your student know and they can bring home a form with directions!

ABC's of Bullying

"Buckets" is a Harlem Globe Trotter and he came to school today to talk to us about bully prevention.

He calls it the ABCs of Bullying.

A= Action

B= Bravery

C= Compassion

Ask your child what they learned from Buckets today!

Hour of Code!

The Hour of Code is being held this week worldwide.  The goal is to have every student participate in an hour of coding sometime during the week.  In years past, over 400,000,000 students have participated in over 180 countries. Today we were 24 of those students who participated! Check out these videos to see WHY we participated and check out the photos to see your child having a blast! I think we have some future computer programmers on our hands!