Snowed In

As we were leaving school on Thursday, one question seemed to be on everyone’s mind, “Are we going to have school tomorrow?” We just so happened to have these two storms bearing down on us, ready to combine into one giant storm that was supposed to...

New Student Blogs!

Everyone has been doing a great job with the blog this year. Many have been taking time outside of school to write comments, reply to others who have commented, and have been visiting other blogs from around the world. Due to their dedication, I knew that these...

D.A.R.E. Graduation

Today we celebrated our time spent this year in D.A.R.E. with our graduation. D.A.R.E. is the Drug Abuse Resistance Education and focuses on teaching students how to make good choices when confronted with some difficult decisions in life. We have been working hard to...

Our New Chromebooks!

We’ve been waiting in anticipation. Thanks to Google, Donors Choose, and a very generous donor, we were able to add 8 Chromebooks to our classroom collection of technology. After a few weeks of anxiously checking for packages, they finally arrived this...

Say Cheese!

We’ve been doing so many incredible things in the classroom this year. Students have been working so hard on all of our math and science concepts. We’ve done some great projects and we’ve gotten to work with some great classes from around the world....

LearnZillion: Common Core Videos

Over the summer, Mr. Avery was lucky enough to have had the opportunity to work for a great new company called LearnZillion. LearnZillion is a new website that focuses on having teachers create videos that correlate to the Common Core. Back in June, 123 teachers from...