We’ve been making our own paper pots, harvesting seeds from our plants, planting new seeds,and they are growing!

Planting Seeds

Collecting Pepper Seeds

Sprouting Beans and Squash

Making Paper Pots

  Adding the Dirt Together

One event from last week’s Earth Olympics was the sunshine challenge. We asked students to come up with ways to make their thermometer the hottest. We gave them some materials to work with and they were free to be creative with the resources in the greenhouse. The most successful ways to increase the thermometer’s temperature was to use the foil as a conductor under the sunlamps, or Tiara used her body heat (under her hair) to heat her team’s thermometer!

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Our Hundreth Day of School was based off the story 100th Day Worries by Margery Cuyler. In the story, Jessica is worried that she cannot find 100 things in her house to bring to school. Our students took on this challenge and brought in these wonderful items! Look at all of our collections!

We then took our collections and counted then by 5′s and 10′s.

Students then made 100′s day necklaces with fruit loops. They counted out their fruit loops in groups of 10 to make sure they had enough.

We also made 100′s day hats with 100 stamps! Wow! What a great day we had celebrating the 100th day of school.

In a controlled environment 4th and 5th grade Science Club members experiment with dry ice, water, dish soap, and pure excitement! Science Club meets on a monthly basis with local volunteers from Pfizer, to experience science in a whole new truly captivating environment.

In Math class students expolored how to sort objects by their different attributes.

Can you tell how these students decided to sort their buttons?

Predicting what they will read about is one of the many important steps of reading in Ms. Rapp’s class. Students learn to read for meaning and want to know if their prediction will be correct at the end of story. Here are some examples of students writing their own predictions before they dive into their text.

Ms. Rapp’s class went into the hallway to make a map of the school. Their task was to take a three-dimensional setting and correspond it to a two-dimensinal map. Check out the video of their hard work!

Check out some of the super work the kids at Edison have been working on during the school year.

5th graders share their learning using timelines.

Holy Shark Batman! 3rd graders learned a lot about sharks.

5th grader recording several historical facts she has discovered to be important or interesting.

Check back frequently because Ms. Rapp’s class is going to be updating the blog with a variety of classroom activities and projects.