5th grade Civil War project

Fifth grade students at Woodland Elementary School recently brought history into the classroom with the help of a “Traveling Trunk” borrowed from the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. The trunk held reproductions of soldier uniforms, newspapers, and other daily use items of the 1860s. Students had the opportunity to try on a uniform, research the Civil War, and create hardtack – a simple, long lasting hard biscuit made from flour, salt, and water – as part of their instruction. The hands-on activities were fun and kept the students focused, engaged, and learning.

4th Grade - Math Projects

Mrs. Sanford is working on creating PowerPoint presentations with her math students. The students are using arrays to create multiplicative and additive word problems to correlate with the image selected by the student. Each array will also have the “fact family” itemized.


Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.

• CCSS.Math.Content.4.OA.A.1 Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison, e.g., interpret 35 = 5 × 7 as a statement that 35 is 5 times as many as 7 and 7 times as many as 5. Represent verbal statements of multiplicative comparisons as multiplication equations.

• CCSS.Math.Content.4.OA.A.2 Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, distinguishing multiplicative comparison from additive comparison.1

August 2013

2nd graders using the self-checkout system.

The new school year has begun and our students are entering the media center for their orientations. We started our classes on Wednesday, August 14th. Teachers in grades 2 - 5 brought their classes in for a review of the procedures in the media center. Students practiced the self-checkout process and left with a library book. We briefly reviewed how to check out electronic books. Students may practice at home if they wish. Please just check out 1 electronic book at a time until our database contains a larger number of e-books.