February 2023

Feeling the Beat

Submitted by megan.oropeza on

1-3 graders have been practicing feeling the beat in the music from video games. They had to hop on the best and get the whole team through the maze. Then, some raced the "monster" (me) to get the treasure and get out before I caught them! 4/5 are finishing On Top of Spaghetti on their ukes and hope to be able to play for their teachers. 😁

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Amanda Michaelis

Visit from the BYU Native American Curriculum Initiative

Submitted by megan.oropeza on

Miss Owen’s class had the opportunity to have a special guest from the BYU Native American Curriculum Initiative come and teach us this week! We learned about the importance of water, particularly on the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, and discussed ways that we can conserve it. We also used a program to create songs with melodies that follow the shape of a stream! 

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Alice Owen

Different Types of Energy

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Our fourth graders are learning about different types of energy. This unit is all about light waves. During this lesson they discovered how in a dark room without a light source, it’s difficult to distinguish colors from one another. When a flashlight was turned on but pointed away from the papers, they could start to see the light rays reflecting from the walls to the papers and into their eyes, but the colors were only clearly visible when the light source was pointed directly at the paper. They are also learning that darker colors are absorbing more light than brighter colors.

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Taylon Mann

Habitats in 2nd Grade

Submitted by megan.oropeza on

We recently had Habitat Day in 2nd Grade! Students were able to travel around the world (the different 2nd grade classrooms) to visit 5 major world habitats- tundra, ocean, desert, grasslands and the rainforest. In our class, students enjoyed making fish to swim down our waterfall and river while stuffed sloths, parots, monkeys and snakes hung from vines. Can you guess which habitat our room represented?

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Christine Kenison

Investigation Force and Motion

Submitted by megan.oropeza on

In third grade we have been investigating all about force and motion. They had the opportunity to learn about force and motion through the building of a Rube Goldberg machine. They worked with teams to move a golf ball into a cup. They came up with some great ideas and had lots of success! 

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Sarah Christley

Building the Future

Submitted by marcy.caldwell on

We are so grateful to have amazing reading technicians to build the capacity of our students.  This is Mrs. Smoot and Mrs. Durfey.  They work so closely together that on occasion they show up dressed in the same outfit!  Thank you for all you do!

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Marcy Caldwell

Kinder Working With Numbers

Submitted by megan.oropeza on

Kindergarten is hard at work learning to decompose teen numbers into ten and further ones. We are using pictures, numbers, and equations to show how many different ways we can show teen numbers. Getting good at this skill will help us in first grade! 

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Alicia Delgado

Science Exploration

Submitted by megan.oropeza on

We are having so much fun in first grade learning science by exploration. We have explored sound and vibration and their relationship. In addition, students have explored the relationship between light and color. 

 

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Katie Oman