The View 38002 April 2018 | Page 9

theview April 2018 .com Page 9 elementary school news Arlington Elementary Second grade has been busy learning about the life cycle of chickens in the most exciting way (above)! Students started out by putting 29 chicken eggs in an incubator. They watched them carefully to make sure their conditions were just right by monitoring the temperature and candling the eggs every 7 days. Much to their delight, 21 days later, the eggs began to hatch! In the children’s opinion, they were the cutest little chicks ever! Three days after hatching, the class returned the chicks to the farm. Fifth grade students at Arlington Elementary School created hamster mansions with limited supplies (below). Students measured and created their mansions within a thirty- minute time frame. The math target was increasing the volume of the mansion with limited supplies. The kids had to measure and construct the largest mansion in 20 minutes. for the day, and had some intense surgery themed music playing to get them engaged. Students from each 4th grade class had the opportunity to serve by reading to kids at a local daycare (below). The kids loved being read to, and the students did a great job giving back to their community. Donelson Elementary Mrs. Nelson’s 2nd graders enjoyed being “Contractionologists” as they performed surgery on words to make them contractions (above, center). When students entered the operating room in the morning, they were granted the title of Doctor Lakeland Elementary Creativity abounded at Lakeland Elementary as students throughout the school thought “outside the box” during recent classroom projects. At top, students in Mrs. Harrison’s class took a sweet approach to math, using jelly beans to create line plots. Above center, students in Club Invention created 3 -dimensional zoo habitats for endangered animals. Who says learning can’t Photos courtesy of AES, DES, and LES