MOST RECENT VIDEOS

• 00:56 5th grade Energy Flow Presentation

  Students created models of the flow of energy in a given ecosystem and explained how energy cycled through the system.

  Uploaded Nov 28, 2019 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:29 Science for the week of November 18-23

  A series of pictures from our 6th grade remote sensing lab, 5th grade energy flow models and Lego League coding and robot constructing.

  Uploaded Nov 28, 2019 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:27 What's going on in music class this week?

  1st grade students are playing and improvising on xylophones and they are exploring many instruments through seasonal games. Choir students help to organize music. 4th graders are practicing their aabc form compositions. 6th grade students are practicing their class-created arrangements of Liberian folk songs.

  Uploaded Nov 27, 2019 by Cate Schmittle
• 00:05 Different Forces in a Chain Reaction

  Students created a chain reaction with examples of gravity, touching force, and magnetic force.

  Uploaded Nov 27, 2019
• 00:16 Different Forces in a Chain Reaction

  Students created a chain reaction with examples of gravity, touching force, and magnetic force. These partners were still in the planning process and working on revising their investigation.

  Uploaded Nov 27, 2019
• 00:23 Different Forces in a Chain Reaction

  Students created a chain reaction with examples of gravity, touching force, and magnetic force.

  Uploaded Nov 27, 2019
• 00:27 Sixth Grade Tap Class Featured

  The sixth graders have been working hard to refresh their tap dance skills this school year! It's been a lot of fun reviewing the tap vocabulary that students learned years ago and use it in a new way. We have also looked at tap dance history in the U.S. and how it evolved over time. Some tap dancers we connected with are The Nicolas Brothers, Savion Glover, and Syncopated Ladies.

  Uploaded Nov 26, 2019 by Chelsea Branch
• 00:20 Pass the Bean Bag Featured

  First graders are starting to learn how to use props during our dance class so that we can use props in our winter show. We started by passing a bean bag last week to practice moving a prop to the beat of the music. It was so much fun!

  Uploaded Nov 25, 2019 by Chelsea Branch
• 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
• 00:22 Straw Reed Lab

  Students created their own straw reeds in order to explore how sounds can be different from each other. We noticed that the shorter the straw the higher the pitch of the reed.

  Uploaded Nov 15, 2019 by Ryan Cherry