Students designing “Sound Watchers” investigating how they can see sound waves. We may have brought a few people to our door to check out what all the noise was!

A few more designs for catching sound waves. Sand, water, foil…lots of redesigning and improving devices.

Students collaborating on investigations and lesson assessment. Dialogue sharing thinking builds collective understanding of concepts and ideas.

Adding on to Mystery Science, creating our own chain reaction machines.

Adding more steps, using what we know about energy transfer, to our designs.

Our PTA is the BEST!!! Brain puzzles and STEM exploration activities for indoor recess & SEL spaces. Each 4th grade classroom got a set. Thank you all for supporting this organization and our classrooms!💙

Modifying our MystSci designs. Investigating pathways of electrical energy.

Inventing heat engines exploration in the Lab Classroom!

Modifying designs to test heat source and spinner model.

Tastee Treet in the Outdoor Classroom! Thank you for delivering to us so we can celebrate our hard work. 🍦

Working with decimals on a number line in our favorite learning place. Doesn’t get much better than math outside in NOVEMBER!

Celebrating #ReadAcrossAmericaWeek in our Outdoor Classroom with a Reader’s Theater Shared Read.

Industrial Revolution BreakoutEDU “Fix The Candy Factory!” Every group figured out the clues and got all the locks. Thanks Josh Allen and Kayla for setting it all up for us!

Free choice reading in the Outdoor Classroom today! Bring on the sunshine! 🌞

Always my favorite investigation day! Chain reaction machines, height energy, energy transfer.

Catching up on a few days in the classroom where I take pics and forget to post! Investigating heat energy in our Lab Classroom!

Can you create a flashlight with LED bulbs, a battery, and classroom materials? Yes they can!

The kids were concerned with the quickly shrinking puddle outside our room and the fact that the tadpoles they were studying only had back legs. Last day of school today so I promised to relocate them. (Disclaimer: I repeatedly asked to PLEASE stay out of the mud.) 😳🐸🌞