AROUND CAMPUS
The ABC ’ s of Scientific Drawing
Accurate . Big . Colorful . Detailed . Explained . Mr . Donnelly ’ s first graders mastered the ABC ’ s of what makes a good scientific drawing . After pencil sketching a tree outside of school , the boys headed inside to add color and discuss .
Earth Science Rocks
Scientific inquiry sparked animated discussion in Mr . Hardie ’ s lab as boys observed and explored minerals and the rock cycle . Sixth grade science is a year-long dive into Earth and Space science .
Nocturnal Animals
Alpha ’ s dive into nocturnal animals provides an opportunity in language arts for the boys to learn about nonfiction books and their text features , and to develop listening comprehension and vocabulary acquisition skills . One group of boys learned about bats , while the other learned about owls . They practiced using text features in nonfiction books to gain information , and then made their own labeled diagrams of their focus animals . Public speaking skills were cultivated by learning a poem , a song , and sharing a fact about their focus animal . All this delighted their parents at the culminating Nocturnal Animal Exhibition .
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