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• 2:24 Week 31: April 18-22, 2002

  This week's slideshow highlights: Students in each class from 6th - 8th grades celebrated Earth Day on Friday by picking from a variety of seeds to plant and take home, from all kinds of annual and perennial flowers to herbs and vegetables; students in 7th and 8th grade just watched the documentary film, Kiss the Ground, which teaches about success stories from around the world where famers and ordinary citizens are using plants to help sequester carbon from the atmosphere and promote healthy regeneration of soil; a few pics show some of our 7th & 8th grade students preparing our worm compost bin so our JHS scientists can compete with Mr. Cherry's Intermediate grades scientists to see who can get their worms to convert the most food wastes into compost--students will record data over the next several weeks of how much food wastes they are also reducing from instead going into landfills; 6th graders began their integrated Science and Maker Space Inquiry unit on the anchoring phenomena--How can we create a fully renewable energy society? by working together exploring various forms of energy and energy transformations via a series of 6 hands-on energy stations. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Apr 24, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:15 Earth Day Composting Posters Featured

  Check out the progress students are making on their composting posters that educate other students about the

  Uploaded Apr 23, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:18 Terrarium Photos version 2 Featured

  Here are pictures of how the students' terrariums have changed after only a few weeks since we planted the grass and alfalfa.

  Uploaded Apr 21, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:21 4th Grade Waves Exploration Lab with Ropes and Slinkies Featured
  Uploaded Apr 13, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:31 Dress like your Teacher Day Featured

  On Friday students had the chance to dress like teachers and teachers the chance to dress like students. We had a blast!

  Uploaded Apr 13, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:35 5th Grade Terrarium Initial Photos Featured

  As part of our unit on ecosystems, students planned and created their own terrariums.

  Uploaded Apr 13, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:07 SEL 'Something Nice Project'

  In this task, students chose a notebook for themselves. Then each student wrote a positive comment about another student on an index card and glued it onto their page. After each comment, they added a sticker. We will finish this project the week after spring break!

  Uploaded Apr 08, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 2:56 Week 28: March 28-April 1, 2022 "Decatur Spirit Week"

  This week's slideshow highlights: 6th graders reviewing for their Earth's Resources SEPUP Unit final exam by playing classroom Jeopardy; I am so proud of our 7th grade class-there are a couple of pics showing them working together to sort food and hygiene items that they and their families donated for this year's annual Student Council Food Drive; 8th graders exploring electromagnetism by testing out their own electromagnets; a 6th grade student and I in a pic of "Reverse Day" as part of Decatur Spirit Week where teachers dressed like students and students like teachers; and last but not least, there are several pics showing our JHS students having so much FUN participating in several friendly competitive events as part of our "March Madness" community-builder! Thank you for checking in this week!

  Uploaded Apr 02, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:36 MARCH MADNESS!!!

  We had an amazing week with some amazing read aloud‘s!

  Uploaded Apr 01, 2022
• 00:13 5th grade Math Dividing Fractions Scavenger Hunt Featured

  Students engaged in a scavenger hunt to help them practice various strategies for dividing a fraction by a fraction.

  Uploaded Mar 29, 2022 by Ryan Cherry