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• 00:11 Basketball Skills

  We are currently in our basketball unit and here our 5th graders are practicing their dribbling and passing skills.
  
  We have practiced dribbling, passing and shooting. This week we are playing small sided games in class.

  Uploaded Feb 14, 2023
• 00:09 ELA Stations

  1. Independent reading
  2. Organizational Writing
  3. Skill: Vocabulary
  4. Teacher table

  Uploaded Nov 11, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:49 Fall Fest Fun with 4th Grade!
  Uploaded Nov 03, 2021 by Katherine Cooper
• 2:12 Food Truck Unit Video

  Decatur Jr. Middle School students recently created their own food trucks including cost analysis, menus, advertisement, business plan, messaging, etc. They did an amazing job! Check it out!

  Uploaded May 22, 2020 by Ryan Cherry
• 2:48 June 6-10, 2022 6th Grade Energy Fair: Room 114

  This slideshow highlights our 6th grade class from Room 114 presenting their Energy Fair Projects at our First Ever Decatur Classical Energy Fair! Students worked in cooperative groups to showcase their research and models on various forms of energy and how we can use renewable energy sources to meet all of our energy needs and make our world more sustainable for the future! A special thank you to Decatur Parent, Ms. Megan Zack, Associate Partner and Director of Sustainability for Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture, which specializes in innovative green building technologies, and also Ms. Liz Wimmer, Program Manager for Illinois Green Alliance, who took time out of their days to also present at our Decatur Energy Fair!

  Uploaded Jun 11, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 2:43 Makerspace: Sep.14 - 18

  In Makerspace, students read 'In My Heart', exploring various feelings we may experience at any one time.
  
  To help them overcome moments of frustration or periods of overwhelm, students recorded their own 'growth mindset' messages, on a cardboard heart before wrapping them,
  
  These hearts will serve as a reminder that even though we are physically apart, we are still connected as a Decatur community. The hearts will also serve as a 'talking piece' during talking circles in class.
  
  During this process, students explored new techniques with creating designs with yarn (learning how to wrap shapes & letters). Students used these techniques to brainstorm their own creation out of yarn following the 'Engineering Design Process'. Stay tuned to see these students' creations next week!
  

  Uploaded Sep 21, 2020
• 00:26 Photos from the week of Oct 7-11

  This week 4th graders worked on seeing how particle collisions work using pennies and how sound waves work through homemade telephones. 5th graders created an energy pyramid to help them understand the interconnectedness of ecosystems and continued creating an ecosystem in their terrariums.

  Uploaded Oct 11, 2019 by Ryan Cherry
• 1:04 Pinball Machines!

  A few of the pinball machines students made by collaborating with their tablemates!

  Uploaded Mar 12, 2023 by Nina Placido
• 00:08 Science Week 10

  Students were working in groups this week to sort through evidence and make a claim. A claim is a proposed answer to a question. Students were working to answer the question, "Which island's weather is most like the weather where orangutans live?"

  Uploaded Nov 05, 2021 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:26 Time Spent Outside of School Data Analysis and Collaboration Featured

  Another 4th grade class in Huntington Indiana and both Decatur 4th grade classes collaborated together to collect data about how 4th graders in different parts of the Midwest spend their time. Students shared their data between each school and analyzed the data before sharing it with our sister class in Indiana in a live Google Meet. Students got to hear about what it was like to live in Chicago compared to Huntington as well as ask each other questions about what we saw in the data.

  Uploaded Sep 17, 2022 by Ryan Cherry