5th grade has been learning about erosion. Take a look.

5th  grade has been making land forms out of sand then dripping water onto them to see what happens when water --rain, snow, sleet----hits rock and land formations. Interesting. It's not always what they expect.

Matter! Plants! Food chains! Rocks! Shadows! Habitats!

Here's a peek at what we've been up to at Pillar! Go to the tab labeled Pillar Falls to see more.

2nd grade answering questions after
 reading an article about deserts.

3rd grade creating food chains!

1st grade writing the properties of solids.

Kindergarten matching shadows and pictures.

New stuff coming!

Wow! With all of the snowdays it has really been just trying to back on track with studies. Classes are moving into new topics.

Kinder------light and shadow

1st grade---matter

2nd grade--habitats

3rd grade---food webs/chains

4th grade---plant adaptations

5th grade---rocks

Go check out the Pillar Falls and Perrine pages to see what all we are up to.

What's up the week before Chrstmas break

Classes here at Pillar Falls and Perrine have been designing and building Christmas trees and checking to see what happens to candy canes in different liquids. 4th grades has been learning about birds of prey from Liz Haugee from ID Power.

Take a look at what have been up to all week!

                 

 Matter, robots, resources, cells, adaptions, and WORMS!!!! 

Look at that we have been up to!

Students in all grade levels studied scientific method. Some cleaned pennies, some experimented with noddles, and some built robots.

Kindergarten is now studying living and nonliving. 

OUCH Visited Pillar Falls

A few weeks ago  Liz Haugee and her friend Ouch came to Pillar Falls to tell students how to be safe around electrical outlets and electricity. Kinders and 1st graders welcomed them with excited smiles and energetic voices.

For the first quarter all classes are learning about the Scientific Method. Elephant Toothpaste was a big hit as we began learning the steps. Many older students had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen, but they were still only making a hypothesis. As we did the activity I directed the students to think in the terms of observe, question, hypothesis, experiment, analyze results, and communicating with others. Below are a few of our elephant toothpaste creations.

Welcome Back to School!!!!

A lot off change has been going on in our district. I have made as big a one as a lot of our students have. I am at 2 new schools this year. I will be making friends at Pillar Falls and Perrine. I have already seen some familiar faces! I am excited to get things started. I am hoping that this year brings lots of fun and learning to the students. I know it will for me.

Chicks have started hatching!

It looks like we have a few Polish Crested, Aracuana, Barred Rock, and Buff Orpington so far. We are keeping a talley on my 'Twitter' board.

Exploring parts of chicken eggs!

4th and 5th graders are investigating the parts of eggs.

 Chalazae, yolk, germinal disc, membranes, albumen, and air cell.

Chicken Breeds have been Chosen!!!!!!!

They are as follows:

White Crested Polish

Silver Laced Wyandotte

Araucana

Barred Plymouth Rock 

Rhode Island Red

Buff Orpington

Sharpen the Paw

This was one of the 'sharpen the Paw' activities on Thursday! The students were building using kinex kits. They had so much fun coming up with their own designs.

Playing with Shadows

Kinders have been making shadows as they learn about how they happen.

Mrs. Rodrigues's AM class shadows

Mrs. Rodrigues's PM class shadows

CSI Science Camp

The Herrett Center for Arts and Science is holding its 18^th annual Science Camp-In overnight event        on April 1^st

This program is designed for 3^rd 4^th and 5^th graders to get them excited about science and its many applications.If you have any 3^rd 4^th or 5^th graders in your lives, whether they are your children, your siblings, cousins or friends, we would

love to invite them to participate in this event! Please visit our website at
http://herrett.csi.edu/exploreherrett/ for more information and to download the registration form for the program.Please, spread the word!

Quick Facts:

·       The program begins at 5:30pm on April 1^st and concludes at 8:00am on April 2^nd.

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The program costs $50 per child.

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Each camper receives a t-shirt, two workshops led by CSI faculty, a planetarium show, a trip to the observatory, and snacks!

Science Day Pictures

Yesterday was amazing!!! Thank you all for being the super leaders you are. Here are a few pictures of what happened. Take a look at some of the fun!

Chobani  representative Eric explaining milk proteins in milk and yogurt

                                                            Liz demonstrating  and letting  students play with generators.   Matt with CSI fish hatchery explaining about what it takes to raise trout, stergeon and a new fish for them a burbot.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Don from INL explains about radioactivity. 

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!!!!