Comparing the effectiveness of different mediums of ground cover on the influence of erosion today in science.

Working on categorizing our examples of systems as we get ready to make generalizations!

Investigating the niches our native VA species occupy in our ecosystems today!

Making generalizations for the concept of relationships today.

Grateful to team up with Ms. Streeten’s amazing first grade readers today for a brief buddy session! We can’t wait to meet again :)

Look at this amazing proportional reasoning for option A, and the assumptions another student made for choosing option B, wow! We love number sense routines in this class, and we are good at them!

We are “separating” concoctions into mixtures and solutions today!

We presented our findings about why the mixed number multiplication algorithm works. We used partial products to explain why: The algorithm is a short cut for decomposing the numbers to multiply them. Amazing collaboration and problem solving were involved in this work!

We are constructing marine food webs in science today. Yum! Good thing it is just about lunch time :)

We loved being reunited with our reading buddies today! They even wrote us letters, and we will deliver our replies tomorrow!

We presented our challenging math tasks this morning Ms. Schwartz was amazed at how quickly we figured out how to tackle this problem! Can you see the connections between how the group solved the question?

I thought we made a lot of generalizations about the concept of relationships! Today we did concept formation for the concept of technology and my scientists created some amazing ideas.

We had so much fun reading together and playing Bingo with our first grade buddies for our Valentine’s Day party today! As usual, their sweet hand-made cards absolutely melted our hearts. Thank you for hosting us Ms. Streeten!

Learning about compression waves in science!

We have been eagerly awaiting this momentous moment all week: We are reunited with our beloved buddies once again!

Hard at work on our sound devices! We have been eagerly awaiting project days and are making the most out of it.

We are testing our ramp surfaces today to determine how they influence the amount of friction the car experiences as it goes down the ramp.

Hard at work on our social studies PBLs in fifth grade! Some of us are making physical artifacts, and others are doing digital ones.

Thanks for a great Back-to-School Night! Here is a highlight from earlier today when Mrs. Schwartz’s class teamed up with the sixth graders to share data that they collected and analyzed in a gallery walk.

We are matching pollinators to the plants they pollinate using our knowledge of structural and behavioral adaptations.