We started off the year talking about physics, tolerance, acceptance, nutrition, and endangered species. Phew! It's been a great...

Our focus this week was our moon and the planets.  We watched some video's about the moon's phases. Then we did an activity with...

Oak class This week, we solved the story problems the kids wrote last week. They were two-digit adding and subtracting problems. Our work...

Oak class Tons of fun in class this week as we wrote, drew, and cut-and-pasted story problems for addition and subtraction of two-digit...

We started our week by drawing a comic strip to teach others what we learned about black holes.  They are hilarious!  Then we moved into...

This week was all about respect. We learned about what is respect. What it looks like and what it sounds like. We played a fun game of...

Oak Class We started a multi-day investigation of packages and parcels. Each present in the story problems is represented by a square,...

We finally understand on a chemical level how we could possibly be made of star stuff! Our favorite force in the universe, gravity,...

Tuesday was all about gravity! First, we defined gravity and discussed how the sun keeps all of our planets from hurling off into the...

We learned about Navajo code talkers and how they helped the Americans win the war in the Pacific.  Students wrote an in-class essay ...

Oak class We did another organizing activity supporting the development of place value, unitizing chunks of ten, and trading up...

This week we explored gratitude. We all say thank you when we receive something, whether it is something material or a nice complement. ...

Oak class This week I briefly introduced the concept of multiplication as we discussed groups of 2s. We explored how many shoes there...

This week we finished our Lichtenstein projects. If you look closely, you can see the Ben-Day dots that Lichtenstein used to simulate...

After learning about how fantastic mistakes are we moved onto creating a mindset of YET! When we get frustrated or feel that we can't do...

Oak class Jack wants to sell his giant beans at the farmers’ market. He doesn’t think it is fair to charge the same price for each bean...

In our 6th grade class, the much anticipated WWII unit has finally arrived.  This week we covered the 25 years leading up to the War.  ...

We started our week off by talking about mistakes and how wonderful and beautiful they are! It is through mistakes that we truly learn...

Oak class We continued our work with understanding our place value system and how each place to the left is ten times bigger than the...

We started with a CSI - inspired activity to discover who stole a missing cake.  This lab had us testing known substances (baking soda,...