March

 Fourth-grade math students have modified mini-golf courses for the residents at Gorham House.  These students have applied ideas from their mini-golf courses and made modifications required for residents to play golf on this tabletop version.  Gorham schools are committed to caring for the community, and students have applied the Code of Conduct's compassion to provide fun activities for Gorham House residents.

4th-grade math students continued a Maine STEM unit by learning about renewable energy in Maine.  Students created turbines that would simulate power if a tidal turbine farm were to operate off our shores.  

 

5th-grade math students continued their work on understanding a total solar eclipse.  They measured the scale of the size and distance of the sun, earth, and moon to each other. 

 

5th graders at Great Falls finished A Mango Shaped Space.  This story tells of Mia's journey with synesthesia, which is a condition that integrates different senses.  Students made origami sunglasses and decorated them to symbolize how they could see the world if they had synesthesia.  

Other 5th-grade ELA students studied Greek Mythology and created their own myths.  

Fabulous February

5th-grade math students created their personal math operations using symbols, rules, and examples to teach their unique operations to classmates.  

4th-grade math students put on engineering hats and brainstormed ideas on modifying lobster traps to keep other sea creatures from possible entanglement in lines.  Great ideas were generated!  Some examples included using magnets, solid circle lines, lighted lines, and noise makers.  A special thank you to the Crowley family for donating their lobster trap so we could explore it.  

4th Grade ELA students created Maine Folktales.  Since folktales are passed down orally, students recorded their voices to share with Narragansett School Pre-K classes.  

4th Grade Maine Folktales

Read Across America Fun!  

Thank you, Mrs. Peters, for our fantastic door design at Great Falls!