Our Trip to Kids Court

On Monday, our classroom visited Judge Scott Pearson’s courtroom to put on a mock trial, hear from the court’s bailiffs and participate in the Ask An Inmate program. It proved to be a terrific experience in which students learned more about the judicial process and the difference between “getting to go to court” and “having to go to court.”

Thanks to all the parents who shared pictures with me, so that I could post them to the blog.

Halloween 2023

Thank you to the families who helped with our Halloween celebration on Tuesday. We had four stations and plenty for students to do, after changing into costumes.

On Monday and continuing into Tuesday, we integrated an engineering activity, a science lesson, a reading passage and an Discovery Education video into our learning around the holiday.

Field Trip: Arthropods

Students have been studying arthropods and this week was a chance to visit Arrow Creek Park and look for them. We shook trees and bushes, lifted rocks, and used aspirators, all in an effort to see what we could find and keep track of how many of a specific group we could find.

Ultimately, this information will be shared with Truckee Meadows Parks.

Working Hard Since Labor Day

We continue to make huge academic strides and cover a lot of content. We completed our work with place value and have started a unit on multi-digit multiplication. We continued our study of the Earth and Sun with activities in and out of the classroom. We moved a Which One Doesn’t Belong to the four square area and thanks to our art volunteers, finished a lesson that integrated our language standards.