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• 1:15 Global School Play Day in Makerspace!

  On February 5, Decatur celebrated "Global School Play Day" in grades K-3; a day where students take a break from traditional classwork to use their imagination and creativity. Students in 2nd grade, were inspired to build the tallest cup tower they could. The amount of energy in the room and teamwork that was used to create the tower was amazing and inspiring to see. Students didn't quite make it to the April 2019 Guinness World record for the largest plastic cup pyramid set in Mexico City, which used 73, 810 cups but they did a fantastic job! How tall of a pyramid can you build?

  Uploaded Feb 06, 2020
• 00:27 Sixth Grade Tap Class Featured

  The sixth graders have been working hard to refresh their tap dance skills this school year! It's been a lot of fun reviewing the tap vocabulary that students learned years ago and use it in a new way. We have also looked at tap dance history in the U.S. and how it evolved over time. Some tap dancers we connected with are The Nicolas Brothers, Savion Glover, and Syncopated Ladies.

  Uploaded Nov 26, 2019 by Chelsea Branch
• 1:58 Welcome Back to Latin Class!

  Magic Carpet
  
  You have a magic carpet
  That will whiz you through the air,
  To Spain or Maine or Africa
  If you just tell it where.
  So will you let it take you
  Where you've never been before,
  Or will you buy some drapes to match
  And use it
  On your
  Floor?

  Uploaded Sep 05, 2020 by Jennifer Mitten
• 00:27 What's going on in music class this week?

  1st grade students are playing and improvising on xylophones and they are exploring many instruments through seasonal games. Choir students help to organize music. 4th graders are practicing their aabc form compositions. 6th grade students are practicing their class-created arrangements of Liberian folk songs.

  Uploaded Nov 27, 2019 by Cate Schmittle
• 00:30 A Fun Hands-on Exploration of Natural Selection in Science Class

  As part of their new SEPUP Life Science Unit on Evolution, the 7th grade class was able to connect back to their previous unit on Reproduction by investigating the role of variation in how natural selection works over time. They conducted a hands-on simulation of birds with various beak traits feeding on "Wild Loops". The students learned how natural selection works to favor certain traits that are better suited to an organism's ability to acquire food in order to have a better chance of surviving long enough to reproduce offspring, thus showing the evolution of the various bird beak traits over many generations.

  Uploaded Mar 19, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:26 6B (107) Test VEX IQ Robots

  6th graders test their robots to remove hazardous materials (blocks) from a disaster site.

  Uploaded Mar 02, 2019
• 1:48 All About Elephants

  The students did a wonderful job creating nonfiction elephant books to showcase their remote learning.

  Uploaded May 01, 2020
• 6:08 Array Scavenger Hunt
  Uploaded Oct 02, 2020 by Katie Andorka
• 00:22 Decatur Walkathon 2019

  4th Graders had a great time at our 2019 Walkathon, held on October 16. There is still time to donate! Decatur's Walkathon goal for this year is $35,000. In addition to supporting collaboration and innovation at Decatur, the funds will support Decatur’s purchase and installation of a new turf area. Decatur will work with the Public Building Commission and CPS to finalize the design of a new turf area, but our goal based on preliminary estimates is $100,000.00. Please help our efforts by contributing to our Walkathon!
  
  If you have any questions, please email our WALKATHON chairs at [email protected].
  
  

  Uploaded Nov 02, 2019
• 00:40 TAG & Summary Practice

  This week students began working on their introductory paragraph of their short story essays. We focused on writing and combining TAGs (title/author/genre) and summaries. Students were asked to share on Padlet with their classmates a TAG + Summary of a book that they've read recently.

  Uploaded Sep 25, 2020 by Katherine Cooper