These sixth grade students learned about the different ways that heat is transferred. One way is by radiation, as shown here. 

Mrs. Crozier's class read "The Best Part of Me: Children Talk About their Bodies in Pictures and Words" as a mentor text to introduce the essay topic for the week. Following their discussion, they wrote an opinion essay on what they belived to be their best part.

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This is Ms. McFerren's class "Explorer  Hall  of  Fame." Groups chose a famous explorer to do some research on then made a life sized version with important facts and information for all to see. The figures were made with the bodies of the students.

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Place value in first and second grade place value is the one of the most important math ideas that first and second grade students learn. Students created place value creatures to reinforce their understanding of ones, tens, and hundreds. 

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These third graders in Mrs. Washburn's class wrote their opinions on serving turkey on Thanksgiving Day.

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Last Friday (11/16), our 5th grade students had the opportunity to visit Discovery Gateway Children's Museum. They were able to reinforce their learning from science classes with a lesson on inherited traits from the knowledgeable museum staff.  The students also got a chance to engage with fun interactive exhibits at the museum. We had a great day and thank you to all the parent volunteers who helped make our field trip possible.

Our young authors and artists have been busy writing and making turkey decoys. 

6th graders were able to participate in a STEM science lesson dealing with density. In this lesson, students stretched a piece of black fabric, and then the teacher set balls with different densities on the fabric one by one. Students watched to see how far the fabric stretched down when each ball was placed on the fabric. The students especially loved the difference of placing the soccer ball and bowling ball on the fabric. They determined that because the bowling ball was solid and the soccer ball was filled with air, that the bowling ball must be more dense.