2015 Smokey Bear & Woodsy Owl Poster Contest Winners

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and the National Garden Clubs, Inc., gave our 5th grade GATE students the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of wildlife prevention and basic environmental conservation principles through original drawings of Smokey Bear or Woodsy Owl. They all did a magnificent job! Below you will see pictures of our winners. Their posters will go on to participate in the state poster contest. 

 1st Place Winner

2nd Place Winner

3rd Place Winner

New Technology Fun!

   Our classroom is now equipped with a new doorbell thanks to littleBits and a little help from our 5th grade GATE students. Operation Doorbell is now complete and in working order. These kiddos have enjoyed this so much. We even have our own doorbell "password". It is top secret! :) 

We have adopted some new technology into our classroom. Meet Ollie, our new "class pet". Ollie can do all kinds of neat things. We control Ollie with an app on our iPad. We hope you enjoy these fun videos! Dr. Sims and Officer Morgan were good sports! No one was injured during these demonstrations. :)

 Meet Osmo. Osmo is also controlled with our iPad. Osmo is a gaming system that allows our students to play 3 hands-on games. These games include pattern building with tangrams (Tangram), problem solving with drawing instruments (Newton) and vocabulary and word building with letter tiles (Words). In the picture below, students are playing Newton, the problem solving game.