Owl pellet dissection

Visiting Our River Ecosystem

This morning we visited our 'local River Ecosystem'. Students were focused on recording 'detailed observations' in their science notebooks while also taking the time to build some cairns on this beautiful morning.

Team Building- Marshmallow Towers

Last week students worked together to build a free-standing tower with marshmallow's and toothpicks. The winning team had a tower that measure more than 13 inches!

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Mills River

Today we had a great day at Mills River. We played Capture the Flag, some people went hiking, others went fishing, we also played Camouflage, Kickball, and World Cup Soccer! We also said 'good-bye' to many team members who will be missed as they move onto other chapters of their lives. Thank you to Laura Merena and Amy Davis for bringing and serving popsicles.

Pi Day and...

Thank you for all of the contributions towards Pi Day on Friday. The students had their 'fill' :)

This week be sure to ask your child...
1) What is a Van de Graaff Generator?
2) How do you find 6% of $15.00?
3) What did they think of the following movie? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3nT2KDAGOc
4) What is their debate topic?

Guest Speakers Week 1 and 2

Last week, Dr. Steve Merena(AKA Amy's Dad) who is a podiatrist at UVM Medical Center graciously paid our class a visit to speak with us about the human body and human body systems. This week, we had Jena Medina(AKA Gabe's mom) who is a Nurse Practitioner and Dr. Joe Haddock, who Jena works with, visit us from Thomas Chittenden Health Center to talk about the human body, diseases of the human body and to teach students how to give injections(to an orange of course!). We are so very grateful to all of our presenters. Be sure to ask your child about these two visits and about the disease they are researching!

Hour of Code on Team Couloir

For the past two weeks(minus some snow days), Team Couloir students have been working on learning and practicing 'code'. Many students are already very proficient, while others are just starting. There is a wealth of resources out there to support students in this exploration. Please consider trying some of the links yourself that we posted on our Team Couloir Math Site.
Today we had a visit from Professor Josh Bongard, who teaches coding at UVM. He brought some of his graduate students with him. Professor Bongard presented to the students briefly and took some time to look at what the students had been working on.