CAL Community School District

3rd grade has been studying light and lenses. Convex lenses are used in microscopes to magnify images. We are so lucky to have microscopes in our science room to help bring our learning alive.

1st grade has been learning about the sun, moon, earth, and stars! Today they got to practice being the moon and earth and how they orbit around the sun!

This year we received Finch Robots as part of the Governor’s STEM Scale Up awards. 4th grade has been using block coding with the Sphero Bolts. Today they transferred their knowledge of block coding to the Finch Bots!

3rd grade has been exploring different kinds of code and how different things can serve as input when coding. They had used Ozobots with markers as the input. Today they learned how to use block coding with the Ozobots!

5th grade worked on their knowledge of nouns, adjectives, verbs, and other parts of speech! They played blooket and were tasked with hacking passwords. How fun!!!

2nd grade students explored coding with Ozobots today during Innovation Club.

Our preschool friends read Snowflake Bentley today and learned that snowflakes each have their own unique patterns. Then they built snowflakes from toothpicks and marshmallows!

Kindergarten has been looking at force in science and got to explore making ramps today!

3rd graders are investigating their reflections in concave and convex mirrors.

2nd grade spent some extra morning time in the CELL building with legos!

4th grade got to know each other a little better today and built friendships with the game, ‘Find a Friend Who’!

1st grade played 2 different games today in reading to get back in the swing of learning! One they had tricky words they had to read as the bounced the ball and the other game was green light, yellow light! Green cards had words they could sound out and go fast, yellow cards had tricky words and had to move slow!

Happy New Year P.B.I.S. Celebration in 3rd grade! It is great to be back together. We are already playing games and learning! Watch out 2023.

2nd grade students celebrating with pajama day this week.

1st grade has been so excited to use the Cricut! They learned about the hardware and software involved and now they know how to cut from their iPads! Students are creating settings and characters for a shadow puppet performance of the Grinch! Stay tuned for this to come after the break!

Kindergarten wrote their own codes to create beaded ornaments. First they had to write the code, and then they had to tell their code to their partner while their partner put beads onto a pipe cleaner that we turned into an ornament! We were working on following basic directions as we created programs and algorithms!

This week in the CELL when students finished an activity they had the chance to build the tallest Christmas tree with cups! We had some pretty tall trees!!

1st grade enjoyed pj and hot cocoa today!

Due to the weather prediction for Wednesday we will not be having our Cookies & Conversation for this Wednesday. Our next meeting will be in January.

Happy Holidays!