Welcome to our pictures! Photos are uploaded throughout the year, so please check back frequently to see what we're up to!
Below: Working together at math games is a great way to practice newly learned skills!
Photos from our Holiday Breakfast...with thanks to our party moms!
Below: Sharing and explaining what they're learning strengthens students' knowledge and understanding. Students below proudly share their math thinking on the whiteboard.
With so much hands-on learning, science is one of our class's favorite subjects. As students work together, they question, investigate, and record their findings.
Below: Here students team up while working in our Properties and Structure of Matter Unit, first to determine certain properties of objects (for example whether they repel or absorb, or were rigid or flexible) and then to work as engineers to solve challenges which would help them test the building properties of those objects. The ultimate goal was to create a structure that would hold up in wind and rain and keep an object dry.
Below: Here students team up while working in our Properties and Structure of Matter Unit, first to determine certain properties of objects (for example whether they repel or absorb, or were rigid or flexible) and then to work as engineers to solve challenges which would help them test the building properties of those objects. The ultimate goal was to create a structure that would hold up in wind and rain and keep an object dry.
Below: Careful Work in Math--measuring takes a great deal of concentration!
Below: Recent science explorations helped students discover important properties of water--it pours, it flows downhill, it takes the shape of the container it's in, and..."Ms. Cottingham, we found out that if you pour water into a larger container, it looks like less, but if you pour it into a smaller container, it looks like more!"
Our Earth's Land and Water unit is providing many opportunities for collaboration as students below predict and investigate how many tablespoons can fit into a "full" cup of pebbles. Working together and sharing ideas are important life skills.
A full cup is REALLY full--filled to the brim, or to capacity!