Hair is neatly combed and brushed. Clothes have been straightened out and arranged in the nicest fashion. That sounds like your typical picture day at school, right? Well, our picture day just so happened to be a bit different this year. Usually students get back pictures and they’re sharing their best smiles. This year, when [...]
Today we culminated our fraction unit with a fun Play-Doh activity. Students had to apply their knowledge of parts of a whole, equivalent fractions, as well as adding fractions. Working with partners, each group was given blue, red, yellow, and white play-doh. They were also given 1 teaspoon, ½ teaspoon, and ¼ teaspoon measuring spoons. [...]
We’ve been learning about how to find the area of rectangles in math. In order to find the area, you must multiply the length and the width. In the rectangle above, we see that the length is 8 inches and the width is 6 inches. In order to find the area, you must multiply these together: [...]
One of our goals for the second part of the year is to interview people who live on or have visited different continents. We are hoping to learn about the similarities and differences between our continent, North America, and some of the others. The first interview in our Blogging Around the Globe series comes from [...]
Photosynthesis in the Classroom In science, we’ve been studying all about plants. We’ve discussed the parts of plants and flowers. We’ve also talked about how plants need to produce their food to survive. This is done through a process called photosynthesis. We learned that photosynthesis involves sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. They use all of [...]
