Flags of Latin America

Cameron Marcus took the camera today and captured 'theme time'. Theme time is a 50 minute block every friday wherein we pull together as a whole team and often focus on the 'creative process' and integrate the current Social Studies or Science theme. Other theme times often include cooperative activities outside. Today students created flags from Latin American countries. The hallway has been brightened significantly!

Marble Maze Challenge

For the past month in Math, students have been working in teams on 'The Algebra Mystery Maze'. In this mini-unit, students solved Algebra Chains, navigated mazes, designed individual mazes and for the grande finale, designed a marble maze. Today, student teams participated in the Marble Maze Challenge; competing to have the longest aggregated time. The Piathletes won the competition. Everyone clearly had fun, and best of all had some great experience collaborating and working on problem solving skills. The PiAthletes-Overall winners! Fun team names!

On Mondays, we schedule a much needed motor break for the team before spelling/vocabulary time. Yesterday the conditions were perfect for snow sculptures.

Today all of 5th and 6th grade got to experience the 'awesomeness' of John Cohn. The primary feature to John's show was 'electricity'. He also spoke to the students about the importance of working in a team, and problem-solving.

Starbase Day 5-Rockies

The final Starbase Day for The Rockies took place this past friday. Be sure to ask your child about the Lunar Reactor activity.

Starbase Day 5-Cascades

Day 5 at Starbase included an up close tour of an F-16, an experiment with Magic Sand, a fun team building activity called 'Lunar Reactor', more flight simulator and a graduation ceremony where all students received a certificate of completion. At the beginning of Starbase the students took a pre-test and had a class average of 49%. On the post test, the class average was 89%!

Starbase Day 4- Rocket Launch

This past Tuesday students completed Day 4 of Starbase. The highlight of the day was Rocket Launch. Thanks to those of you who came out to watch. It was very entertaining to say the least.