Red Ribbon Week - Lei Off Drugs
1st and 2nd grade students started their animal research for our class book today. Each student has their own animal to research. At the end of the unit students will publish a class book with their research.
The Kindergarten students have been learning about life long ago. They had a great time making pictures to show what life looked like long ago.
The seventh and eighth grade students have worked to cut out and assemble the human body systems. They had read and research in order to explain what the various organs do and how they look in order to create an accurate model.
1st and 2nd grade practiced new math skills with a new math game. They love it!
Students participated in health screenings conducted by Henry County Health Center.
The Kindergarten class learned some more new Secret Stories this week.
The 7th and 8th grade students are learning about the body systems during science. They are creating posters to share ideas about the systems. They worked in small groups sharing information to answer questions and interpret how the systems work together.
Students in first and second grade got to partner read their stories for this week.
Kindergarteners finished ABC Bootcamp today and are working on writing skills. Next week they will begin Word Family Bootcamp and sight words.
Students in 7th & 8th grades are working in small groups during Social Studies to complete an investigation project. Students were tasked with analyzing four theories that explained what happened to the Maya Civilization. Next, they had to choose which theory they believed to be true. Finally, they are creating a presentation to explain their claim and justify their opinion. In addition, they will provide tips to future civilizations on how to avoid their own demise.
The 5th and 6th grade have been using dry erase boards around the room to work vertically on math problems.
5th & 6th graders are learning how to write Evidence-Based paragraphs. Today, they looked at a sample paragraph to identify the parts of an EB paragraph.
7th & 8th graders are preparing to read “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” with Anticipation Stations to learn more about teleplays, The Twilight Zone, vocabulary words, opinion statements, and making predictions.
3rd and 4th grade worked together to test how friction effects an objects motion. They tested various items in the classroom to determine which items went down the ramp first and why.
First graders started subtraction within 20 today. We discovered different strategies to solve equations. Some students chose to work independently to test their skills. 🙂
STEM Survival Camp - Students in grades 5-8 STEM class are creating a model shelter that will withstand rain & wind if sent off in the woods with only limited supplies.
5th and 6th are completing a variety of stations over what they have been learning about the layers of the Earth in science.
It was exciting to be able to have the annual Grandparents' Day celebration again at Shawnee. Over 65 special guests were able to join in on the classroom fun and the delicious lunch.
The fifth and sixth grade students are currently learning about Earth’s layers and Earth’s different systems. They were able to complete a lab which had them investigating how a hard boiled egg’s layers were similar to the Earth’s layers. They were able to make some great observations and comparisons about both.
