Math At Home

Sandy Creek Outreach Visit

Today Second Grade was visited by Ms. Mowbray from Sandy Creek Nature Center.  She provided interactive and hands-on activities to meet Georgia Performance Standards and Common Core Standards.  The students learned about life cycles from birth to death of animals and plants.  We learned how living things grow, change, reproduce and die. Ms. Mowbray brought in live animals (hissing cockroach and blue tounge skink) as well as preserved examples of stages of life cycles from insects.  The students were divided into three groups to participate in the hands on activities such as ordering life cycles of living things, sorting living and nonliving things, and baby and adult animal sort. 

And The Prize Goes To......

                                                 MIRIAM

She was part of the science fair bridge building contest.  She and her team built a bridge using sticks and books.  The construction and testing of model bridges promotes the study and application of fundamental principles physics and also helps high school students develop "hands on" skills through bridge construction. By participating in the Bridge Building Competition students get a flavor of what it is to be an Engineer, designing structures to a set of specifications and then seeing them perform their function. They are also provided with an academically-oriented extracurricular activity which is recognized school-wide.  She and her team will now compete on the district level.  Please join my class in wishing our very own Miriam good luck!