Sharpen the Paw activity

Take a look at what my groups did for 'Sharpen the Paw' We made Christmas trees out of bolts, nuts, and washers. Then we put sparkly snow on them!

What's going on

     Wow! It is almost Christmas break!  We all have been VERY busy this month. 1st grade is learning about life cycles. 2nd grade is studying matter and putting together a big foldable filled with smaller foldables. One of our 3rd grade classes--Mrs. Standley's--is building and programming robots.  The other 3 are learning about resources with a visit from Liz Haugee from ID Power. 3rd grade also had a special visitor from the INL to tell us about nuclear energy. Thank you Mr. Miley. 4th graders are just finishing up plant adaptations and beginning to move into animal adaptations. Can't wait to see if there are any similarities. 5th grade has working on plant and animal cells. Ask them about their jello cells! Kindergarten is learning about our 5 senses.
     Make sure and check out the "Happenings" page for pictures of all the fun we have been having!

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check out what all we have been doing!

!st grade is studying life cycles, 2nd is investigating matter, 3rd is looking at natural resources, with one class building and programming robots!!!!, 4th is studying plant adaptations, and 5th is learning about cells. Kindergarten is learning about senses. They get all the fun!!!!

4th Grade Researching Plants with Chrome Books!!!!!!!

4th graders last week and this week are researching plant adaptations using Chrome Books. They are VERY involved in their work!!!!!!! 

First though we had to get logged in and bookmark my blog site, then they could go to any of the designated sites from my blog.

Look at what a few ladies found on the playground!!!!!

Madison from Ms. Ender's class

Thanks so much for sharing this morning.

Helping Harry!

Look at  all the ways the students 'helped Harry' see the whole classroom. 

We were definitely using our STEM skills.

Tweeting about Teachers

 I am excited when students 'tweet' about other teachers in the school! 

Kinders are mixing colors

This week kindergartners are reading a story about one of my Quirkle friends, Colorful Caroline. she explains how to get purple, green, and orange by mixing red, yellow, and blue together.  Then the students try out her formulas. they had a lot of fun!

                            Do you see the rainbow?????

Check out how robot building is going

Even teachers can do STEM

Scientific Method

All classes Kinder through 5th grade have been studying the scientific method. Going over steps and their explanations. A few class have even taken a quiz on it. 3rd had a cut and glue quiz while 5th and 4th have had to write the steps and their explanations. that has been harder than they thought. 

the middle pictures are 4th grade reviewing their experiment from last week. 

check out the 'Links'  and "Documents' pages for information about the scientific method.

FRIDAY FUN DAY!!!!!!

Here is a collage of getting ready for the rainbow picture Ms. Sorenson took.

Love the message on the 'Twitter' board

We do have amazing 4th grade teachers and I love that the students are telling them!

I love unicorns too, Lily! 

First Lego League (FLL) released its new competition board

University of Idaho Extension Office and FLL teams were on hand Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, for the release of the new competition board. They showed the video that explained and showed the new set-up. they also had an older team to demonstrate robots running the course. Harrison had baked potatoes for sale. A great time was had by all who attended.

 

Check out the fun things we are doing

the first day of school was full of fun! we made elephant toothpaste---but nobody brought their pet elephant to test it on. 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders were seeing what colors from gobstoppers did in water----interesting, very interesting!

                           

           

WELCOME BACK for ANOTHER YEAR!!!

Welcome back to another exciting year of science as I again visit each of your classrooms. We are going to try a few new things and  continue a few new things from last year. So if you are curious about what might be going on in science class this year, you might want to be at school everyday!!!!! I am so excited to start school this year! How about  you? Please comment on the Twitter board in the hallway about being back at school!

3rd Graders are teaching their classmates about planets this week!

3rd graders have been researching planets, the sun, and our moon. They then created a poster about it in preparation to teach the rest of their class about their planet, sun, or moon.  They all seemed to have fun and be very excited to share! Here are a few pictures:

Take a look on the "Happenings" page to see a few more. They all did an outstanding job.

More chicks!!!!!!!

They are here!! They are here!!!

Well at least a few have hatched and now enjoying Mr. Fullmer's hospitality.
Take a look at our babies.

Almost Hatching Day!!!!!

Tomorrow marks the big day.....we will all become parents! Well, so to speak hopefully there will lots of peeping little babies making their debut.  4th and 5th graders are anxiously awaiting their babies to be born. Here they are after we took them off the turners.

WAAAAAAAAAY Cool!

Take a look at what the 4th and 5th grades are getting to see. Baby chicks moving in the egg. It is so amazing to see the little things move. It is awe inspiring. So glad we have gotten the opportunity to experience this amazing event, thanks to Suzanne Dolecheck and the U of I extension office and 4H. We are about a week from hatching day then the sound of little peeps and chirps will be heard in the 4th and 5th grade hall. We'll keep you posted.

Candling Week!!!!!

This week we are candling the chicken eggs to see the development of the baby (embryo). We should get to see the baby move inside the egg. These individual pictures are from about day 3. the collage below is from day about day 12. All the 4th and 5th graders will get to experience this procedure.

ID Power Presenter Liz Haugee visits 4th and 5th graders

Liz Haugee is teaching Mrs. Anderson's 4th graders about the characteristics of birds of prey and how ID Power is helping keep them safe as they land and nest on power poles.                                     

 Do you know how the Bald eagle got its name??                     Ask a 4th grader.

If you are interested in viewing a nest of a Peregrine Falcon or an Eagle check these links out.

Peregrine Falcon nest

Eagle nest