MOST RECENT VIDEOS

• 00:17 SEL - Happiness

  We have been talking about happiness and what brings us happiness.
  
  Now we are drawing what makes us happy!

  Uploaded Sep 22, 2022
• 00:26 Time Spent Outside of School Data Analysis and Collaboration Featured

  Another 4th grade class in Huntington Indiana and both Decatur 4th grade classes collaborated together to collect data about how 4th graders in different parts of the Midwest spend their time. Students shared their data between each school and analyzed the data before sharing it with our sister class in Indiana in a live Google Meet. Students got to hear about what it was like to live in Chicago compared to Huntington as well as ask each other questions about what we saw in the data.

  Uploaded Sep 17, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:16 3rd Reference Book Scavenger Hunt Featured

  Students were beginning to learn about traits related to different organisms.

  Uploaded Sep 17, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 4:12 Week 4 of 2022-23: JHS Science

  This week's slideshow highlights: a special visit from Decatur alumni who stopped by during last Saturday's Decatur Picnic to visit their old friend, our class pet bearded dragon, Curtiss; 5th grade students making observations and asking questions about those mysterious beads that turn colors when they went outside in sunlight; 5th and 6th grade students diving into their first SEPUP Inquiry Units by participating in a group textbook scavenger hunt to learn how to make use of all science textbook features/resources; 6th - 8th grade classes adding their initial inquiry questions to our class "Driving Questions Board"; 8th grade students volunteering to share their analysis responses in front of the class on a lesson on measuring speed; 7th grade students learning how to use compound light microscopes, a stereoscope, and digital microscopes to view microorganisms as part of their SEPUP inquiry unit "From Cells to Organisms; several pics of students hanging out with Curtiss; a few pics of our classroom Lake Michigan aquatic ecosystem with our newly added catfish; and a couple of pics of a Katydid students discovered right outside our school building. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Sep 16, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:33 Reading partner work!

  Today we took story excerpts and put them into groups of fiction and nonfiction, and then put them into their sub groups. We are doing it with RSEL partners and crushing it!

  Uploaded Sep 16, 2022
• 00:12 Writing Personal Narratives

  Students in 102 spent time this week revisitng their writing from last week. This time, they added sensory details and used their Editor's markings to gave 3 suggestions to a buddy. They have a good thing going!

  Uploaded Sep 16, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:22 2nd Grade Plays Obwisana

  Students in second grade work together to play a passing game from Ghana. This game has no winner - it only works when each person works together to pass at the same time to the steady beat. I know these students were so proud that they could do this without a pile up. Way to go 2nd grade students!

  Uploaded Sep 12, 2022 by Cate Schmittle
• 2:22 Week 3 of 2022-23: JHS Science

  This week's slideshow depicts: 7th grade students taking care of Curtiss, our class pet Bearded Dragon Lizard; 7th grade students cooperatively learning how to operate light microscopes while viewing specimens under various levels of magnification; 8th grade students observing a moth that just hatched from its chrysalis stage of life; and 6th graders working in teams conducting a scavenger hunt to learn how to use all of the text features in their SEPUP textbook for their first unit, "Geologic Processes". Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Sep 09, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 2:22 Week 3 of 2022-23: JHS Science

  This week's slideshow depicts: 7th grade students taking care of Curtiss, our class pet Bearded Dragon Lizard; 7th grade students cooperatively learning how to operate light microscopes while viewing specimens under various levels of magnification; 8th grade students observing a moth that just hatched from its chrysalis stage of life; and 6th graders working in teams conducting a scavenger hunt to learn how to use all of the text features in their SEPUP textbook for their first unit, "Geologic Processes". Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Sep 09, 2022
• 2:22 Week 3 of 2022-23: JHS Science

  This week's slideshow depicts: 7th grade students taking care of Curtiss, our class pet Bearded Dragon Lizard; 7th grade students cooperatively learning how to operate light microscopes while viewing specimens under various levels of magnification; 8th grade students observing a moth that just hatched from its chrysalis stage of life; and 6th graders working in teams conducting a scavenger hunt to learn how to use all of the text features in their SEPUP textbook for their first unit, "Geologic Processes". Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Sep 09, 2022