Budding Meteorologist

Our challenge students are learning all about the weather in their Meteorology Unit.  Check out some of the hands-on STEM activities and weather instruments they have created!  

Mrs. Miller's Book Club

Happy Book Fair Week!  Please check out this short video to learn more about Mrs. Miller's Book Club!  You can also check out my table at the book fair all week in the library! 

Happy Reading!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIPcuXhaKKw

Place Value Structures in 5th Grade

Take a peek at what was happening in Mrs. Torres' class today! 

I gave the students the number 1,245 and they had to take out that amount of PV blocks and build a structure that stands.  I then told them to take away 10.  (The structure may have had to be rebuilt).  They completed the math on their desk to show how many blocks were left.  I then told them to take away 7.  Some, very quickly, decided that they needed to exchange a 10 for 10-1’s before they could take any away. But others just took away the 5 – 1’s and 2 sticks of 10 to equal taking 7 away.  We had the discussion of having to make that exchange first.  They then completed the math on their desk to show what regrouping looks like in a math equation.

We then took it up a level and made the PV blocks be ones, tenths and hundredths and did the same activity.  Great discussions were had about lining up decimal points and how regrouping looks the same.

Place Value in 3rd Grade

3rd graders have been working on different ways to write a number. This includes standard form, base ten form, word form, expanded form, and expanded notation. We used our place value disc to help us with expanded notation. 

3rd Graders At Work

3rd Graders At Work
by: Mrs. Hernandez

3rd graders enjoyed spending time in the science lab. They explored different ways to classify matter. They tested and measured the mass, texture, temperature, magnetism, sink or float, and states of matter. What a great way to start the year!

3rd graders spent time in the computer lab working on our new math program DreamBox. They loved it! 

Thank you, Mrs. Hernandez, for sharing your class with us! 

Guidance Lessons with Mrs. Snead

Wow!  It feels great to be back at school.  I am having so much fun seeing our Dragons all around school.  I have been out and about teaching lessons about the importance of our words with each other and on social media with our fifth-grade classes.  They are amazing at working together as a team and problem-solving.   Below you can see our fifth-graders trying to get toothpaste back into the tube.  They learned that toothpaste, like words, can't be put back into the tube once it has been squeezed out.  

I have also enjoyed doing a lesson with Kindergarten this week.  Our little Dragons think I do all sorts of things...from locking all the doors to making the rules to handing out papers.  They are so cute!  We read a book and learned about some of the things I do.  “Mrs. Snead cares about you, listens to you and helps you!”

I am looking forward to teaching lessons to all the other grade levels over the next few weeks.

Mrs. Snead