The students are creating an eco-column out of soda bottles. Each pair of students create an aquarium area along with a terrarium area. We connect the two worlds into a column and then the students explore into the relationship of these two worlds. Finally, we add different elements to change a balanced community and show the effects man can create. We then dive into decimals, multiplication and division.
Student are able to experience math with many hands-on projects to complete throughout the year.
We look at the different nationalities that begin our country and study the changes that take place. Our new social studies books have many ideas to use with the students to bring social studies alive in the classroom. The students continue on by finishing the expansion of the United States beyond the Appalachian Mountains. We move through history with the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War. Students created house that would have been in the Southwest out of clay, representing adobe bricks.