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• 00:17 Our "how-to" publishing party with 8th Grade and our pen pals!
  Uploaded May 15, 2022 by Nina Placido
• 4:09 Spaghetti Tower STEM Challenge

  To ease back as we begin 2022, each class worked as small teams to practice their creative engineering and design skills by trying to be the team to create the tallest spaghetti tower. A 6th grade team from Room 103 created the tallest at just over 30". This activity is a perfect way to reestablish classroom collaboration and strengthen our community after the long winter break!

  Uploaded Jan 22, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:20 3rd Grade Bumper Ball

  This week in PE we started our soccer unit. We started off with practicing our dribbling skills. Along with going over some basic dribbling drills, we incorporate some games to help improve our dribbling skills as well. Here the 3rd Grade class is playing Bumper Ball.

  Uploaded Oct 11, 2019
• 9:57 Music and Emotion: 6th and 2nd grade collaboration!

  Decatur partnered with the CSO this year to create an arts integrated unit based on music, art, and emotion. Ms. Koreman and Ms. Schmittle worked with 2nd and 6th grade students to create this project. COMING SOON will be a page on our website dedicated to ALL the incredible projects. 6th grade students are currently working to curate this page. Way to go Decatur students!

  Uploaded May 17, 2021 by Cate Schmittle
• 00:11 5th Grade Gallery Walk

  5th Graders reflected on their end-of-unit project on Surface Area by looking at each others' work and discussing what everyone did well, in order to improve our own process and communication of thinking for a project.

  Uploaded Oct 07, 2022 by Andrew Brennan
• 00:14 Math| Base Ten Exploration

  As we begin our first math unit, students expressed double digit numbers through these bas ten manipulatives. Such a hands on way to learn place value!

  Uploaded Sep 09, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:15 Parter work - using past, present and future verbs
  Uploaded Jan 25, 2020
• 00:25 We Can Work It Out

  Check out the students dancing to "We Can Work It Out" for the first time on stage. They did an AMAZING job in the Winter Show this week!

  Uploaded Feb 02, 2023 by Erin Cole
• 00:23 Investigating Animals Senses 4th grade Science Featured

  Students worked with partners to explore different animals senses as they read the trade book Investigating Animals Senses and came up with questions related to the topic to help them read the informational text more closely.

  Uploaded Oct 02, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 2:21 Makerspace: Feb. 24-28

  This week, 1st graders explored a several stations in their "Light and Sound" unit: Ss rotated between using a stethoscope to hear their heart beat and experimenting with both metal water bottles and plastic bins with rubber bands to determine how different ways that they could make sound.
  2nd graders have begun their new unit on "Properties of Matter". Students have begun to analyze 'color' and 'texture' and will be spending time analyzing these in monster trucks in class! 6th Graders in Rm. 107 did extremely well in their concluding their robot unit. Shoutout to Group A who respectfully debated about the fairness of the constraints and penalties while their robots were going through the collection zone! It was a bittersweet moment for Rm. 107 to say goodbye to their robot chassis'! JMS students also celebrated their February incentive with creating stop-motion videos

  Uploaded Feb 28, 2020