January Essential Oils class - learn to upgrade your home
Our Construction Site: A Sweet Spot to Learn
Kindergarten students, alongside our senior class assistants, spent the morning before winter break constructing gingerbread houses. After spending the week reading Hansel and Gretel and discussing our design plans, students went right to work constructing a solid structure using a variety of materials. We problem-solved ways to repair our structures, inspected peers' sturdy designs, and tested out (and sampled) many sweet building materials. Kindergarten students (and even our big helpers) poured their hearts into their creations!
Jolabokaflod Day: PJ Reading Day in K!
Kindergarten students enjoyed an entire day devoted to literacy last week. We constructed cozy reading forts, went "shopping" for "good fit" texts, invited classmates to read with us, and hunkered down in our dimmed classroom to read with flashlights and plenty of chocolates on hand.
We learned about this Icelandic tradition of giving gifts of books for Christmas and reading and eating sweets all day in bed. What a sweet way to usher in the holiday season!
Student and Teacher Spotlight!
Christan Chapman -9th grade
Austin Terry - 3rd grade
Kellee Young - Dean of Students
A great turnout at the Holiday Program!!
The 11th grade had a great time at the Hummingbird today in Meadowlands.
9th grade working their community service in the bus garage today. Thank you for giving back!
The kindergarten class is baking up winter fun!
The juniors did a great job decorating Ms. Hanson’s and Ms. Rocco’s Doors!!!
Meet Olive, Floodwood School's therapy dog in training! She has been getting socialized with the students so she'll be ready for her certification test this summer
Ms. Fierke's door for the decorating contest with the help of a very talented student - she did a fantastic job!
5th and 6th graders enjoying their root beer floats for winning the door decorating!
5th and 6th grade door decorating contest winners showing school pride, creativity and originality, good teamwork students!
The cafeteria doors all decked out! Awesome job!
Caroling Continued :)
More from the Caroling Event
More pictures from the Elementary Caroling Event last Friday, December 14th
Kindergarten students continued partner engineering work last week with marshmallow and toothpick structures. Though much trial and error, we discovered the marshmallows were much too fragile. They crumbled and did not hold the weight of our hands when we applied any amount of downward force. We returned to step 5 of our STEM inquiry process multiple times as we revised blueprints and improved our designs.
We also invited the 2nd graders to our class to help us problem-solve our marshmallow and toothpick structures. They confirmed our hypotheses--marshmallows are not the ideal building structure.
While in the midst of our engineering work this week, our classroom was infiltrated by a mischievous elf! Initially, he was bent on messing up our room. We used our iPads to take pictures of evidence of his misdoings and also conducted some research on suitable traps that would withstand the force of an energetic elf.
We decided to use our marshmallow structures to trap him overnight early in the week. We discovered he was nocturnal and had a penchant for sweets--especially candy canes.
Our structures were almost exclusively made of squares and rectangles. After testing out multiple designs...and receiving some clues from one of the elf's daily notes, we learned that triangles are much more resilient. Thanks to the elf who supplied us with a few clues, some research, and a bag of new materials, we went back to our drawing board and created structures made with gum drops in the shape of pyramids. This was the key to success and we met his challenge to cooperatively build a trap that measured more than 10 cubes in height!
Hooray for our enthusiastic and persistent engineers and one little elf who learned how to be kind in kindergarten!
All elementary students (K-6) caroling in the community today!!
Flannel Day and Holiday Sweater Day!!
Wednesday and Thursday next week :)
