Field Day 2010News & Events
Thursday, September 2
First and Second Grade Tea, 2-3 p.m.
Monday, September 6
Labor Day/School Holiday
Tuesday, September 7
School Opens for Grades 1-6
Preschool, Prekindergarten, and Kindergarten Open House
Wednesday, September 8
Preschool, Prekindergarten, and Kindergarten: 1/2 day for 1/2 classes
Thursday, September 9
Preschool, Prekindergarten, and Kindergarten: 1/2 day for 1/2 classes
Friday, September 10
Regular Day for All Classes
FCO Meeting, 8:15 a.m.
Saturday, September 11
Welcome Back Michael Zimmerman, 3-5 p.m.
News From the Classrooms
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5th Grade Living History The students in grade five have studied various voyagers during a recent social studies unit. They where given an essential driving question: How have historic voyages influenced global awareness and shaped our world? The students concluded their unit by "becoming" the historical figures they choose to research to answer that essential question. They posed as this historic figure and came "alive," only if visitors fed the boxes in front of them with plastic coins. Museum figures include: Neil Armstrong, Sally Ride, Sacajawea, Harriet Tubman, Robert Peary, Amelia Earhart, Alexander, the Great , Lance Armstrong and Sojourner Truth. |
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4th graders have been studying the coal miners of northeastern Pennsylvania. We have specifically focused our research on life in a company town – called Patchtowns. In the classroom we recreated a patchtown and the students researched topics such as schooling, recreation, daily chores, housing, food, and the company store. Each student also selected a character/person (trapper boy, breaker boy, miner, etc.) to research and created the collages that are hilighted in the voicethread project. (Follow the link to hear students talk about their work - you will be able to comment as well!). Teacher Lee |
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Kindergartners on their "Symbolic Migration"
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Structures Mini-Course: Slideshow Structures was the six-week mini-course for fourth through sixth grade students in the design of Rivendell, based on Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings community; a multi-disciplined project that encompassed storytelling, team-building, math, vocabulary, mapping and a lot of fun.The students were charged with creating an open space island community at the center of which is the ‘Spring of Arda,’ which bubbles up from a deep blue and otherwise calm lake. The student designers had to take into consideration the direction of prevailing winds and currents that greatly influenced beach configurations, potential erosion, the distribution of a municipal building, the lighthouse, biking trails and other key features. |
5th Grade
The fifth graders have been studying the Nile River and ancient Egypt. They have had a great deal of fun making their own papyrus paper as well as their own ink (out of blackberries) to write in hieroglyphs on that paper. The students also made faux papyrus boats out of straws. These boats and stories about them can be seen and heard on http://voicethread.com/share/677669. Please log on and leave your comments.
All fifth grade work is also on displaye at their "Egyptian Artifact Museum" on the first floor of the School Building. Coming soon to the artifact museum: canopic jars.
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4th Grade “Talking Heads”
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Creating your very own “Talking Head” is a great way for 4th grade students to communicate graphically. Students are given the opportunity to identify positive things that might help define who they are. They get to answer the question: What people or things are special and important to me? By doing so they not only learn about themselves, but also about each other. The head is then divided into puzzle pieces, with each piece representing one aspect of our own unique self. When completed, our colorful “Talking Heads” are displayed in the classroom throughout the remainder of the year.
Tr. Lee.
Calendar
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