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• 00:36 Word Study Mannequin Challenge
  Uploaded Nov 16, 2016
• 00:45 Last Garden of the Seaon
  Uploaded Nov 15, 2016
• 1:02 Spiders

  Is a spider an animal? Ask a kindergartner.
  Do you know the following poem?
  "Five little spiders crawling all around.
  The first one said, "See the bug I found?"
  The second one said, "My web is neat."
  The third one said, "I have eight feet."
  The fourth one said, "We're all so small."
  The fifth one said, "Time for autumn leaves to fall."
  Then whoosh went the wind and out went the light,
  and the five little spiders crawled out of sight.

  Uploaded Nov 11, 2016
• 00:24 Pattern Books

  In Writing Workshop, we have been working on writing our own pattern books, reflective of the types of books we are reading in Reading Workshop. Patterned books have words that repeat on each page and can sometimes have a little twist at the end. Through writing patterned books, we have been working on writing conventions, such as word spacing, sight word spelling and capitalizing the first letter of the sentence.

  Uploaded Nov 08, 2016
• 2:31 Juicy Math Problem!

  Take a sneak peak into our math workshop as students solve a really hard math problem!

  Uploaded Nov 04, 2016
• 1:02 Classifying Animals

  Fourth graders observed crayfish, snails, guinea pigs, fish, specimen jars, earthworms, and hermit crabs in their classifying animals lab. They also placed cards in groups to show examples of food chains and created a classroom poster showing the subgroups for vertebrates and invertebrates.

  Uploaded Nov 02, 2016
• 00:58 Fred, the Fish

  Third graders used a model of a fresh stream with the scenario of Fred, the Fish to investigate how pollutants such as oil, dirt, paper trash, salt, model fertilizer and chemicals affect the environment that in turn can affect species of various living organisms. As each pollutant was added, students described Fred's feelings in their adjective listings for "How is Fred?"

  Uploaded Nov 02, 2016
• 1:00 2nd Grade Dance!
  Uploaded Oct 21, 2016
• 1:02 Lumbricus Terrestris

  What can we observe about the way earthworms (lumbricus terrestris) look and behave? Fourth graders investigated some of the decomposers' preferences during science lab: moist or dry, light or darkness, and sensitivity to touch. Many of our invertebrate friends, who acquired nicknames, will relocate in Alice's Garden soon to continue their special work.

  Uploaded Oct 21, 2016
• 00:55 Balancing Bats

  Bats adapt in special ways to survive in their habitats. Third graders measured the mass in rocks and grams for microbats and megabats and created a wingspan model using the measurement of millimeters. Students created other bat models to illustrate how these flying mammals artistically balance their flying to catch prey by using paper clips as counterbalancing tools. At one station, they wrote "bat facts". Do you know how a bat uses echolocation? Well, "Ask a third grader." :)

  Uploaded Oct 21, 2016