CAL Community School District

5th grade LOVES to play blooket! It is a great website to review previous lessons and learn new things! Today they played Deceptive Dinos which reviewed their math facts!!

One of our 6th graders designed this rock/cave structure for our frog habitat. It finished printing on our 3D printer this afternoon and the frogs were on it right away!

5th graders have been working so hard in math class this week! They have been working in groups to solve problems using the standard algorithm and area models for multiplication! Some of their answers have been in the millions!! 😳😳

Kindergarten had their first chance to use our virtual reality goggles! They have been learning about Iowa’s environmental characteristics. They viewed different environments on the virtual reality goggles and had to decide if what they were viewing was in Iowa or not in Iowa.

PreK students have been learning about patterns. What a pattern is, how to predict a pattern, and creating simple and complex patterns. In Innovation we worked on finishing a pattern and then entering that pattern into the kinderbots to code them!

3rd grade has been exploring force and motion. Today they were introduced to a Rube Goldberg machine and as part of that they got to explore dominoes! They had some very creative designs!

2nd grade students learning to ‘Share the Pen’ by collaborating to solve math problems. The students with the pen can only write down ideas from other students!

2nd grade students using movement to identify words with different vowel patterns in Reading.

Fancy and the kindergartners love the beautiful weather we’re having!

Preschool is using Make Dos and cardboard construction to learn about engineering!

The preschoolers dug into pumpkins to learn about measurement, weight, buoyancy, and the life cycle of plants. They measured and described them then created a Jack O Lantern which we will leave to rot all year in a jar! So fun to see the natural process of decomposition up close!

Happy Halloween from Preschool!!!

1st grade exploring light!

1st grade enjoyed exploring with light again today. We learned that in order to see we need light!

CAL Elementary teachers, administration and school board member with Governor Reynolds!

CAL Elementary was blessed with a visit from Governor Reynolds today! The students and their teachers were able to show off all of their hard work in STEM education! Way to go CAL Elementary staff and students!

Lots of fun at the 2nd grade Halloween party!

4th grade Fall Party!

4th grade said boo to drugs and bullying with our Red Ribbon Week presentation!

Kindergarten had so much fun at their Halloween party!