In the Tech Innovation Lab, Fourth graders met Dash, the robot! Groups completed coding puzzles to learn how to program Dash. So fun!
Fourth graders in Mrs. Jankowski’s class held debates about the read aloud of The Tiger Rising. Students listened to each other respectfully as each group presented evidence to support their claim about the book. What a great way to develop our listening and speaking skills!
First graders make stick puppets with Mrs. Mulligan to retell the story The Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds.
Second grade has risen to the challenge of choice based art. They are coming to class with thoughtful ideas and plans for creating. Here you see one student trying their hand at one point perspective and another pair making a kinetic sculpture! These are quite advanced skills! I couldn't be more proud of my Swallow Union artists!
Mrs. Hamel’s class enjoying a guest reader!
Mrs. Hamel’s students making bundles of tens and hundreds.
Second Graders drew monsters and wrote spooky stories about them. Then, we used Chatterpix in the Innovation lab to animate the monsters telling the story!
Our older students really enjoy it when they can be a Reading Buddy to some of our younger learners! Mrs. Keegan's 3rd graders are reading partners with Mrs. Vargeletis' students! The smiles say it all about the value of being a reading buddy!
2H students making a group of 1000 digi- blocks (with one extra ten on the top)!
Mrs. Hamel’s second grade class enjoying a class movement break!
Mrs. Bushnell's second-grade class loved using manipulatives such as popsicle sticks and Digi-Blocks to see and form base ten units. Students bundled ones into tens, tens into hundreds, and hundreds into a thousand!
Third and Fourth Graders in the Tech Innovation Lab are becoming pros at using Google Slides. They are practicing how to cut, paste, resize, reorder, and move objects by creating a Halloween Scene! Some students wrote a spooky story to match their scene.
Students in 4J were caught persevering and embracing the challenge of their end of module assessment. Students displayed great organization skills, use of strategies and resources, and mindfulness to work on a very lengthy assessment.
After giving great effort in math, students then became scientists. They used sugar cubes to represent rocks, and shook the cubes to discover the effects of weathering and erosion of rocks. They then recorded their observations of how the cubes changed with more and more shakes. What a fun way to learn about weathering and erosion!
Mrs. Schott’s class worked hard at creating their drawings for the Square One Art fundraiser.
Students in grades 2-4 were VERY excited to open the sculpture center in Art this week! If your child brings home a sculpture ask them to explain their creation to you. I think you will be pleased with the creative thinking that is going into these pieces!
Second Graders in the Technology Innovation Lab are learning how to be good digital citizens!
Some of our 4th graders adding music and movement to poetry. One of our 4th grade classes are exploring xylophones with improvisation!
PE is currently in the middle of their jump rope unit. For second through fourth grade, last week they started with individual skills. This week they moved on to partner tricks. Next week they will begin the long rope!
Students in 4F working together on their inferencing skills by developing ideas about characters in the book The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo.
