3rd grade was busy coding "finch bots" today in order to discover what kinds of rights people have in America.
1st grade exploring 3D shapes in math! They had to sort them on similar things and then tried to guess the shapes.
1st grade enjoyed getting to do some reading together with their 4th grade buddy!
Kindergarten has been learning about flat and solid shapes. Today, they used their knowledge of solid shapes to create a model of our classroom.
Kindergarten has been learning about explorers in reading. In science, they were challenged to work with a partner and create their own ships that would sail their explorer across the ocean. They learned about the parts of a ship, decided which materials would work best, and got busy building.
Kindergarten testing their ships. All of our ships floated and made it safely across the ocean!
5th grade took advantage of the beautiful weather and spent reading time outside today!
1st grade has been working with measuring in math! We have been using different things like small and big paper clips, different size cubes and string to measure different things in our classroom and pieces of tape on the floor!
1st grade had some 2nd graders come in to read a book and give them some kindness challenges! Challenges were as simple as write a note to a teacher to helping the custodian clean! They loved it!
1st grade has been learning about stars and constellations so they got in groups and made constellations and got to see them glow in dark in the gym!
1st grade had some visitors from the extension office for read across Iowa. They read a book that they each got a copy of and then planted sweet corn! We are keeping the sweet corn at school to watch it grow!
Last week, Kindergarten kicked off "Read Across Iowa" by reading about strawberries! They did a guided drawing activity, and also got to compare the seeds of other fruits to the seeds of a strawberry. They used their 5 senses to explore each of the fruits and got to taste all of the yummy fruit Mrs. Craighton brought!
1st grade listened to some Apple stories and an Apple farm for read across Iowa and then got to taste test different apples. We tasted pink lady, Granny Smith, red delicious, cosmic crisp, and golden delicious! As a class red delicious was the winner.
On Friday, 5th grade students observed gravity and inertia! They used hot wheels cars and a makeshift racetrack to study how the height and mass of an object influences its motion.
1st grade has been learning about volcanos, fossils, 3 types of rocks so we enjoyed some fun, engaging activities. Used starbursts to make different rocks, made our own fossils, and watched lava in a cup!
1st earned PBIS reward and had blanket and stuffed animal day!
Preschool had SO much fun playing outside!!
On Friday, 5th grade earned a class PBIS reward! Students were able to use the spheros and VR headsets in the CELL!
4th grade was fortunate enough to have generational dairy farmers visit today to connect what we've been learning to real people and careers! The Hofmeisters visited CAL and did an AMAZING job teaching about how dairy farming has changed over time. Our students had many questions for our visitors to better understand how milk and other dairy products get to them, from farm to table. Thank you so much for coming!
1st grade learned about sedimentary (layers formed over time), igneous (formed from heat), and metamorphic ( formed from pressure) rocks. We also were able to explore some sediments (sand and soil) in water and see what happens!
