Earth Day Everyday!

Speak for the air, where the birds glide in the sun.

Speak for the land, where you play and run.
Speak for the water, splashing or still.
Speak for the Earth, if you won't who will?

Students have been learning about the importance of our limited natural resources during science this week.  After doing an  interactive sort of compost, recycling, or trash, they were ready to celebrate Earth Day by beautifying the school grounds Friday afternoon.

Test your garbage sorting skills using this online game Recycle Roundup. 

During math, students have been learning about 2D shapes. With geoboards, tracing shapes, and iPads, drawing and describing shapes has never been so easy!

During our unit on plants, students have learned about plant needs and plant parts.  To assess their learning, student teams created a plant model out of shapes and labeled it's parts.

I can't wait to see the adventures the next few weeks bring!

This Is How We Roll!

Students enjoyed a morning of bowling fun compliments of NRV Superbowl in Christiansburg.  With guidance from our P.E. teacher, Ms. Shaver, students shared in the excitement of strikes, spares, and sportsmanship at the bowling alley.  

Mystery Readers have surprised our class over the past three weeks.  Clues were given to the class before each mystery reader was revealed.  Students enjoyed having these special guests sharing their favorite stories!

During math, students transitioned from money to place value by playing the games Race to $1.00 and Race to 100, two simple games that reinforce trading out ones (pennies) for a ten (dime).  They also created models of numbers with tens rods and ones units to illustrate numbers.  Using manipulatives has helped students develop proficiency with number sense.  Place Value Scoot was an activity we used to reinforce this knowledge.

We also began a unit on measuring with nonstandard units.

Even Mrs. Cromer got in on the action!  Students traced and measured members of our school community to complete an activity on estimating and finding actual measurements of familiar people. 

Literacy and Language Arts Snapshots...

After learning about George Washington Carver's many uses for sweet potatoes and peanuts, students used peanut butter as an adhesive for birdseed on their bird feeders.  What a fun spring project!