Students picked a stuffy buddy to do their work with this week. Our classroom provided a safe and supportive space for students returning to school.
Students created stars to design a poster for the Lewiston Library to show support for their community.
Hello Fall! I wanted to celebrate ELA SAIL 5th grade students from last year who were selected to be published in a book. Each library at the elementary schools has its own copy. Congratulations to our published authors!
The beginning of school is an exciting time of year. S.A.I.L. is underway. It is so good to be back. Stop by next month to see what projects we have been working on.
Check out what SAIL has been doing this month.
4th Grade ELA students finished their Lighthouse STEM unit by writing journal entries in the Day in the Life of a Lighthouse Keeper. Here are some samples.
January 2, 1776, 5:07 PM
It looks like a storm is coming in, so it's a good thing I changed the lens two months ago. There's a good chance it'll be going on into the night, so I'll probably be up here for a while. It's harder to keep everything working because I cut my hand pretty badly a couple days ago fixing the gears. Anyways, I just finished making dinner for me and my daughter, Emily, and now she's drawing in her bedroom. She is eight years old.
5th graders in ELA are finishing their book groups. Their books aligned with their study of the American Civil War.
4th graders built tidal turbines as they learned about renewable energy.
*Not pictured, AC, CH, CS, and NE.
5th graders created their own Sirpenski's Triangle. This geometric fractal is an example of how patterns repeat on different scales.
The school year is flying by. Here's what SAIL has been up to this month. 4th Grade ELA students wrote a lighthouse poem inspired by The Lighthouse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
4th Grade math students learned about how the Fresnel lens revolutionized the light of lighthouses. Next month, students will learn about renewable energy involving tides. Check back next month as we build a tidal turbine!
ELA 5th graders are exploring many topics. Narragansett students are writing myths. Great Falls students are reading Elijah of Buxton, a story about a boy who is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada. Village students finished their book study, A Mango Shaped Space, where a girl learns to appreciate her gift of synesthesia.
5th-grade math students learned about coordinate planes, ordered pairs, the x-axis, and the y-axis. They applied this knowledge to the game Battleship.
5th graders finished their Food Truck units. Students celebrated their Food Truck projects with friends. They shared their business plans, took "food" orders, and added/subtracted decimals using money. It was a fun way to have math come to life.
5th Grade ELA students learned how to enrich their writing with alliteration. We learned Amanda Gorman, a famous poet overcame her speech challenge by using alliteration. Students discovered that speech teachers use alliteration to practice a particular sound that students struggle with. The fifth grade made a connection between alliteration and tongue twisters. They created a book Gorham elementary speech teachers could use.
Mrs. Larochelle (Narragansett)
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Mrs. Lamanna (Great Falls)
4th Grade Math students discovered Shpero/Indie. Maine schools received a grant to purchase these kits through "Expanding Access to Computer Science in Maine Classrooms." Students explored how they worked and how computer science is connected to their lives.
4th Grade ELA students analyzed a poem from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Lighthouse. This aligns with the Maine History unit in their classrooms.
5th Grade Food Truck Update
In the fall, Village School toured Mow's Munchies. Mow's Munchies challenged Village students to create a new menu item. They came up with different burger recipes and voted on... the Potato Tornado! Check it out on Mow's 2023 summer menu!
