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Seven Minutes of Terror

This spring the three seventh graders participated in a class called Seven Minutes of Terror. The launch window for the Mars 2020 mission opened July 17 and closed Aug. 5, when Earth and Mars are in the proper positions in the solar system to enable a direct interplanetary journey. The rover was scheduled to land Read More >>

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American Revolution

Students in 2nd – 4th grade participated in a class this spring about the American Revolution.  Students listened to and discussed the books such as: Sam the Minuteman, George the Drummer Boy, Can’t You Make them Behave King George and Phoebe the Spy.  They have learned about the differences between Minutemen and Redcoats, discussed Paul Read More >>

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Ten Blue Dots

Some of the youngest students listened to the book Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews. After listening to the book, counting dots and discussing each page, students worked hard on making their own Ten Blue Dots Book.   During each class, students get to work on a page or two by drawing their picture with the dots Read More >>

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Magnets

Over the last few months, all of the kindergarten and first graders have been in a magnet class during Investigations that was a total of five classes. The groups were split up into two groups and they met about once a week. This class was incredibly fun for them because they all love magnets and Read More >>

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Geometry

In the middle of November a few students began a Geometry Unit. The goal of this unit was for students to be able to identify a variety of shapes and be able to count their sides and vertices. We primarily worked with shapes with 3-6 sides. All students excelled in this, and were even able Read More >>

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Electricity

Over the past few months the students have been learning about electricity. This is a very exciting topic for the students because electricity means a lot of activities and experiments! We learned how to light up a lightbulb only using a battery, lightbulb and two wires and that it makes a complete circuit which the Read More >>

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Solar System

Students participated in a Solar system unit where we talked about the name of the planets, their size, their distance from the sun, the moon phases, and constellations. The first-class students listened to a book about the planets and began drawing and coloring in the planet they were designated. I then turned each child’s planet Read More >>

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Simple Machines

In a 5-week online class, students in grades 2 – 4 learned about the seven best known simple machines — lever, inclined plane, wedge, screw, wheel and axle, gear, and pulley — through videos, on-camera demonstrations, discussion and hands-on activities. The purpose of the unit was to show how humans developed ways to make certain Read More >>

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Animal Classification

When Animal class began again in January of this year, we started with a book called The Butterfly and the Lamb. As is often the case, while the book seems very simple it is addressing an important issue: the difference between animals who need to be nutured for some portion of their lifespan and those Read More >>

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Finding Langston

During Spring 2021, four students in grades 4 – 6 all were in a book club reading Finding Langston. The story was about a boy named Langston and his father after they move to Chicago from Alabama after his mother passed away and Langston finding the writer Langston Hughes. Along with reading the story the Read More >>