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• 00:10 3rd Grade Soccer Practice

  We are starting our soccer unit in PE, and our first skill we are working on in dribbling. The thirds graders practiced dribbling down and back, weaving in-between the cones and ended the day with a a relay race!
  

  Uploaded Sep 24, 2021
• 00:44 4th Grade Composers

  One of the hardest parts about making and creating music online is lag. We have trouble playing together like we can in person. Despite this, we learn to be better listeners, kinder friends to our classmates, and we endure challenges! Decatur 4th graders created performances anyway with recorders and percussion. They are the owners of their music making - and that is way cool even the virtual space

  Uploaded Jan 27, 2021 by Cate Schmittle
• 00:32 4th Grade Holiday Party Featured

  We wrapped up the week with a fantastic holiday party organized by our amazing room parents! Thank you to Lisbeth, Ginna, Jocelyn and Nicole for coming into our space to help facilitate creating bookmarks, playing bingo and a minute to win it challenge of drawing a snowman on a plate on top of their heads and of course laughing!

  Uploaded Dec 23, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 1:31 6th-8th Civic Engagement

  6th, 7th, and 8th graders collected dry goods and reusable water bottles to fill care packages. Students filled the materials they collected into packages that students experiencing homelessness could take home over break.

  Uploaded Dec 17, 2021 by Andrew Brennan
• 00:35 Fourth-grade Ceramics

  Fourth-grade students are creating miniature clay figurines of their design after studying Pre-Columbian art.

  Uploaded Dec 02, 2019 by Margaret Koreman
• 00:57 Guess That Artifact

  5th graders contributed artifacts to a game played in class. Students found artifacts both new, old, or ancient. Students used their observation skills to try to guess what the artifact is and what it was used for.

  Uploaded Dec 05, 2020 by Marianne Sharping
• 1:33 Introducing our hamster Krimpets! Featured

  We recently got a hamster who have named Krimpets as in Butterscotch Krimpets from our novel we read last year Maniac Magee. She is a Syrian long haired hamster and quite large as far as hamsters go. We are really excited about our new classmate!

  Uploaded Jan 21, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 1:54 Makerspace @ Decatur

  Makerspace is a very unique course for students to imagine, tinker, create, question, collaborate, experiment and invent in an encouraging environment. When we make mistakes in class, we recognize failure isn’t the end but an opportunity to take a new path towards our goals. We persevere to rethink and try our design and ideas again. Check this video out to get a glimpse of what students create in Makerspace!

  Uploaded Sep 06, 2020
• 1:05 Makerspace: Nov. 12-22

  In talking circles, Decatur students discussed and recorded what they're thankful for at school, in themselves and at home. Check out their their gratitude on paper chains on our gratitude tree in our North Lobby. 3rd graders also had a talking circle in Makerspace about how to make sure work completed in a group is evenly divided amongst all team members. 4th graders presented their Index Card Tower presentations, while students in K-2 began posting their reflections on Padlet. 6th graders in Rm. 107 have kicked off their robotic units by assembling a testbed, to get familiar with how the controller and various inputs/outputs in the robot brain function. In Science, 4th graders created reed instruments out of straws to explore amplitude and pitch in Science.

  Uploaded Nov 24, 2019
• 00:09 Math Stations

  A bit of organized chaos, but really it's how a first grade classroom should be at times. Some students were simply exploring the balancing scales with objects from the classroom. Other students were working on their Measurement Monsters and others were doing their Lesson 4 practice sheet, which is a Must Do before they can move on to stations.

  Uploaded Jan 20, 2023 by LeiAnna Carrasco