Hands-On Projects

It has been a long time since I graduated from elementary school, but I don't remember ever doing so many hands-on projects and activities.  The teachers have done an excellent job providing such wonderful learning opportunities for our children.

Over the past week, I have discovered "oobleck" in 3rd grade, "convergent plate graham cracker replicas" in the 5th grade and got to see the preparation of the aquarium that will be home to our brook trout for the next several months.

3rd Grade Oobleck experiement - Is it a solid, liquid or gas?

 

5th Graders studying convergent plate boundaries - Loved the songs with the motions!

3rd Graders prepping the tank in Mrs. Corpening's Room - How many pitchers did it take?

 
 

I also was invited to the 4th grade Chinese Tasting!  Everything was yummy :-)

 

What lovely authentic dresses!

Friday Celebrations

It was exciting to see such fun things happening at Emerald Hill this past Friday.  I just thought I would share a couple of them.


The 3rd grade students finished reading the story "Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope." The "Fiesta" went along with the story to celebrate Mexican-American heritage.  Students and teachers ate, braided, and watched a real movie of Anthony and his family roping!  I understand that a wonderful time was had by all!  Many thanks always to our volunteers who helped! 

      

The 4th grade students enjoyed Grandparents Day.  They celebrated with family in the cafeteria and enjoyed cookies provided by our PTO (Thank you!) before going back to their classrooms for more activities.  

 

 

 

 

 

Hard at Work

I am so impressed at the wonderful projects and activities that students have been working on during these first few days of school!  Ms. Wain's 5th Grade class is learning about the layers of the earth and creating projects to illustrate what they have learned.  What great timing!  Hopefully students will learn about what causes earthquakes and how they impact the world.

 

 

Mr. Ortman and Mrs. Mawdsley's classes are doing some great science experiments!  They are learning about what will happen when they put celery in a cup with water and food coloring.  I'll have to check back this week to see what happened!