Classroom Photos


2017-2018 School Year


Mealworm Habitats














5th Grade Buddies





Nature Ninjas


Ms. Kendra explaining our activity

Trying to hide like mice in the field

Can you spot any mice?




Habitat Card Sort



Practicing our end punctuation

Active learning



Riveredge Nature Center Field Trip




Ready to Explore!

Investigating the destruction to the trees from the Emerald Ash Borer



Exploring the forest habitat


Lots of interesting finds!
Sharing our bug boxes!

Taking a closer look

Recording our findings




Exploring a prairie habitat

Catching insects with the sweep nets


Investigating our findings














2016-2017 School Year

Japan Events
















Tea ceremony traditions








Enjoying our tea and cookies

In Japan they show respect when they bow to someone else


Thank you Mrs. Offenbeck for sharing all your knowledge of Japan!

The second graders loved hearing all your stories! 

Japanese Dolls Creations!

Finished product!


Our Japanese Dolls

Trying Japanese Foods! Yummy!






Making Japanese Dolls

Japanese Dolls in Progress!

Creating our Japanese Dolls

Fun with Japanese Dolls

Tea Ceremony

Showing respect in our kimonos!


Valentine's Day Party













Investigating how solid and liquid properties change










Making our Australia Maps





2015-2016 School Year
Thanks to Mrs. Emmerich for teaching us about Junior Achievement this year!


Matching careers

Making donuts for JA
Working hard

Taking a brain break

Letting our bodies wiggle


Read to Someone




Doing some Read to Self time



Brother buddies!




Interviewing our buddies


First project with our buddies


Dancing to The Monster Mash


Eyeball Race



Tasty Treats



Class costumes
Who is that?!?
Halloween Party Fun!
















In the Japanese Tea House





Yummy swiss chard




Bus Buddies























Reading with Braille

Reading the Black Book of Colors.





Feeding Time!


Sorting seeds




Touching the plant that made our hands smell like lemons.
Off to explore!
Excited to be here!
Making our way through the gardens at Bookworm Gardens


Forest explorers! 





Finding our trees!





Testing out the forest soil



Using our sweep nets to catch some critters!








Pushing in the soil probe.

Bug catching in the prairie!







Look at this awesome black and yellow garden spider we found!

Catching bugs in the prairie!

Using the sweep nets to catch bugs!






Investigating the soil in the prairie.





Catching bugs in the forest!



Eli found a woolly bear caterpillar!





Investigating the woodpecker holes!


Checking out the pond habitat!



On the hunt for frogs and turtles!







Where are all the frogs??


Using the soil probe to get a soil sample!




No comments:

Post a Comment