This morning 5th grade created snowflakes to hang from the ceilings in the hallways. Another wonderful CAL tradition!
2nd grade has been learning about the word gratitude in our morning meetings. They decided to create a gratitude chain to pass along to the other classes. Here is the finalized chain with a few of our 2nd grade students 🧡
2nd Grade highlights have been earning a class glow party, making mashed potatoes for our Thanksgiving Mini Meal, and enjoying each of the other class contributions to the meal with our 5th grade buddy class.
3rd grade celebrated a PBIS classroom goal by driving Spheros in the cell!! We will use spheros for our chariot races in a another week or so, as we conclude our reading unit on ancient Rome.
4th grade has been keeping busy!
-Mrs. Enslin-Vogel was a guest speaker for our First Chapter Friday to read Shiloh to us.
-JDS Spraying came in for a visit to let us get up close to a real, large drone! They have loved learning about how their interest in drones can be real careers right here in our local communities. Thank you so much for visiting!
-Although we didn't get any photos, our VR headsets got put to good use by exploring plate tectonics and how earthquakes happen.
-Iowa's Biofuel Trailer made a stop at CAL Elementary this week! It was a perfect connection to our studies about agricultural technology and a look into our next unit of renewable energy.
-We also made a quick stop by our 1st grade buddies' classroom to say hi and drop off some encouraging words to show an act of kindness!
Bio-fuel trailer presentation. Kindergarten enjoyed listening and learning about corn!
Bio-fuel trailer presentation. Kindergarten enjoyed listening and learning about corn!
Kindness day- kindergarten made I am thankful for pictures for their 6th grade buddies today!
Kindergarten went outside to find shapes for math!
Decorating pumpkins was definitely a highlight on Friday for our 1st and 4th grade buddies!
Halloween is over and that means lots of leftover pumpkins!! First grade gathered some from around the school and took them out to the farm to share with our pigs, goats, and turkeys this morning. They LOVE to eat pumpkins! We also fed some carrots, peppers, and cauliflower trimmings. Shoutout to Ms. Amber and Ms. Colleen in the kitchen for saving salad bar leftovers and trimmings so that even when the school garden is done for the year our animals still get some yummy fresh treats almost every day!!
3rd grade Halloween fun!
Thank you, parents, for your help.
Kindergarten Halloween fun
Happy Halloween from CAL Second Grade 🎃
Kindergarten enjoyed their guest reader today- Aaden read a Dino football story to them!
Kindergarten enjoyed testing their designs to see if they could keep their person less hot while being at the beach. In science they have been learning about hot and less hot. Their final challenge was to build something that would keep them from getting too hot at the beach.
After a busy week in 3rd grade, a little extra recess on a beautiful day was in order!
5th grade enjoyed reading about early American civilizations while taking advantage of today's beautiful weather!
Kindergarten enjoyed popcorn and candy for their PBIS reward!
2nd grade students have been exploring with SAM Lab technology, which our school received from an Iowa STEM scale-up grant this year. They created a code to connect a light sensor to a RGB LED block to light up their paper lanterns to wrap up their Ancient Chinese civilization Reading unit.
