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Congratulations
Kindergarten Class of 2010! |
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| Thank you Mrs. Kacorzyk for a wonderful keepsake with the Kindergarten show. This file may be downladed here, but please keep in mind it is large and might take a while. |
| Kindergarten enjoys a day at the zoo! |
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Kindergarten and 8th Grade Partners say Farewell! |
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Kindergartners enjoy a day together at Real Life Farms! |
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| Grade 1 |
| We hope our moms enjoyed their mums! | |
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| What does the Tooth Fairy do with those teeth? Grade One students know - find out! |
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| Grade 1 made a project to help them remember about some of our patriotic symbols and landmarks. | ||
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Stories really take a long time to write. We write and check and write again! At last - a story! |
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| Grade 2 |
Our Monster Exchange Project is Ready to Share! Be sure to listen to your audio greeting for your partner (found at the very bottom of your monster page).
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| Second graders have worked very hard over the past several weeks on a project with a class from Australia called Monster Exchange! Each class drew a monster, then we wrote a detailed description of what our monster looks like. We sent only the description to our Australian partner, so they could recreate our monster. Finally, we compared our drawings online. This project helped us to better understand how important descriptive words can be. | ||
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The second graders wrote about how special their moms are to them.
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The second graders planted sunflower seeds in science class! |
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These are our newly planted seeds. |
We sprouted after only one week! |
Look how our sunflowers have grown! |
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Shhh! It's a secret! The Second Graders were making Mother's Day gifts for their special moms! |
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The Second Graders created artwork depicting themselves entering the church on their First Communion Day which will be coming soon! |
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The second graders did an experiment in Science using white carnations in colored water (blue and red). The white flowers turned blue and pinkish red. The students learned that water travels up the stem to the flowers. |
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The Second Graders have been learning about ways to help our planet Earth. |
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The second graders are learning about fossils in science, so they made their own fossils using Plaster of Paris. |
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We practiced basic math facts by creating Math About Me pictures. Not only did we count up items that are important to us, but we learned how to insert a digital picture and record online! |
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Third graders demonstrate how vibration produces sound. |
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Third graders make electric circuits with batteries and flashlight bulbs to produce heat and light. |
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Thank you to the Trenton Kiwanis Club who presented third grade students with their won dictionaries!
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Third graders make gallon guys using: 1 gallon, 2 half gallons, 4 quarts, 8 pints, and 16 cups! |
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Third graders explore how they can describe motion. |
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Grade 3 works on culture projects that show the United States is a melting pot of cultures. |
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Third graders work together to show Apostolic works. |
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Third graders completed book reports on famous people - we made both puppets of our person and recorded a movie to share our reports with you! |
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| Grade 4 |
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Fourth grade science students were assigned individual experiments in order to practice, master, and then present their findings to the class. They are having fun being the teacher and asking and answering questions from their classmates. |
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Fourth graders participated in the Great Lakes Education Cruise sponsored by MSU. During the two hour cruise on the Detroit River, we learned how to tie knots, read nautical maps, test water samples and dredge the river bottom for living organisms. |
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| Fourth graders traveled to The Henry Ford Museum and participated in the "If I Had a Hammer" program. We used our math, science, social studies, communication and teamwork skills to create a one-room house! We all fit inside - even though it was a bit tight! |
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We enjoyed a well deserved break at lunch during our Henry Ford Museum field trip. |
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We have so much going on in our fourth grade classroom that we are blogging to help keep you in touch with all of our activity! Be sure to check frequently for our latest postings! |
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Students were assigned individual pop bottle experiments to practice, master, and then present their findings to the class. They are having fun being the teacher and asking and answering questions from their classmates. |
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Students spent time in the computer lab taking part in a virtual owl pellet dissection before the actual hands-on project. Then, each student had the opportunity to dissect their own owl pellet. Next, they reconstructed all the bones to discover what animal their owl ate for lunch! We found rats, moles, and shrews! Finally, they identified and labeled all the bones. |
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5th graders spent the day at Greenfield Village at the McGuffey School House. This one room school offers the opportunity to experience the daily life of children who attended such a school a hundred years ago. We were thrilled that Fr. Brad showed up to surprise us!
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Students used iodine to test 13 different foods to see if they contained any carbohydrates. The food that surprised them the most was pork rinds. They contain no carbs! |
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Fifth graders had a wonderful day exploring at the Rouge River Water Festival 2010 at U of M Dearborn. Students had many hands-on activities and investigated pond water, reptiles, amphibians, zebra mussels and sea lamprey! |
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In Social Studies, the fifth graders are learning how every day life was in Colonial Days. We made our own butter and enjoyed eating it with bread and jam. |
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Sixth graders enjoy their ice cream party they won as a carnival raffle prize!
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Sixth graders are working in groups to prepare skits or dramatic readings of fables.
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SIXTH GRADE FIRST! Students eagerly dissected large bull frogs in their first ever experience with in-class dissections. Students already can't wait until seventh and eighth grade for fetal pigs and sharks! |
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Sixth grade students created "Roadmaps" through history after reading historical fiction books. |
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Students created timelines of the life of Alexander the Great after reading about him in Social Studies class. |
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Sixth grade scientists used everyday materials to purify salt water into everyday drinking water. This process is called desalination. |
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6th Graders are creating comic strips to show the main events in their Literature story "The All American Slurp". |
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Seventh graders wrote diamantes, poems that have seven lines, two opposite subjects and follow rules about using specific parts of speech. Once written, these poems have the shape of a diamond - thus the name diamond, or diamante in Italian. Our students wrote their poems and then gave them a Web 2.0 twist by creating Word Clouds from the text. Finally, students uploaded their works to VoiceThread where they recited their diamante poetry to share with you. |
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We've got spirit, yes we do, we've got spirit - how 'bout you? Grade 7 shows support for our school by creating a banner to help decorate for our school carnival. |
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| We practiced stress relieving techniques. By designing our own Zen sand gardens, we realize how quickly stress seems to be "swept away". |
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Seventh graders spent time realizing how beneficial having opposable thumbs is. After an hour of being masking taped into limited range of motion, students realized we have a large advantage because we CAN move our thumbs! |
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Seventh graders have been studying genetics. Partner pairs used red and white beans to determine how likely it would be for traits to be expressed in offspring. |
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Seventh graders made edible DNA in science class. Using twizzlers, marshmallows and toothpicks, students had a visual of what the twisted ladder shape of DNA looks like. |
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Seventh graders made posters to help them visualize how to diagram sentences. |
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Seventh graders observed the difference between cellular respiration and photosynthesis by comparing plant sprigs in carbonated water and blue dye solutions placed both in the sunlight and in a dark closet. |
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| Grade 8 |
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What a time we had on our Class Trip at Niagara Falls! |
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Eighth grade students spent time outside simulating a volcanic eruption with vinegar and baking soda. |
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Eighth graders worked with Plaster of Paris and plastic toys to simulate fossils buried years ago. Each group buried a toy and "dug" it up the next day to visualize how fossils get created. |
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Eighth graders questioned and researched two careers they are interested in pursuing and they documented their inquiry process in a written report. They then chose one career to create a PowerPoint for and presented to their classmates.. |
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Eighth grade science students spent time recreating the solar system to scale. Using meter sticks, yarn, planet cut-outs and roll paper - the solar system was revealed before each group's eyes. |
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