White Elephant Gift Exchange Photo Album

Today’s field trip to the Lower School kindergarten class was the culmination of weeks of a cross-campus project. Since the kindergarten class has a unit on The Gingerbread Man, the fifth graders read the story to look for patterns and writing traits within the story. Next they wrote their own stories, which included these patterns […]

Click on the link below to see the kindergarten blog about our Skype session yesterday! Kindergarten Blog

Since this year’s kindergarten class hasn’t had a great deal of interaction with the fifth graders (since we’re on different campuses), we are introducing ourselves and a project we’ll be sharing on Thursday with the kindergarten class via Skype. The Skyping will happen tomorrow morning….stay tuned! Thursday, we’ll take a trip to Lower School to […]

Frac-Tac-Toe is a game that the fifth graders play to reinforce their understanding of fractions, decimals, and percents.

It’s finally here!!! The fifth and sixth grade students will have the opportunity to participate in Laguna Blanca’s first coding club! Malte Muenke will be coaching the coding club. Mrs. Brown will be helping out too:) Here are the details: What is it? Fifth and sixth grade students will be using the program, Scratch, to […]

Announcements for the Week of 12/16/13 Upcoming Tests, Projects, & Quizzes Stories for the kindergarten class are due, 12/18/13 Spelling Quiz 15–Friday, 12/20/13 Unit 5 Math Test–Tuesday, 1/7/14 Upcoming Events Field Trip to Lower School to share  stories–Thursday, 12/19/13 Student Winter Holiday Party–Friday, 12/20/13 (11:40-12:25–Fifth graders will be participating in a White Elephant Gift Exchange) […]

Homework for the Week of 12/16-12/20 Monday Read for 20 minutes, and record in your reading log. Watch the video for lesson 5.10, and take  notes. (one star point for 1-2)  Practice your math facts using an online review site of your choice. (two star points for 1-3) Write a one-half page letter about your […]

This morning the fifth grade class participated in the Hour of Code Project, joining thousands of students from around the globe! Instead of math, we spent the hour experimenting with computer programming code. Check out the link below if you would like to participate. It’s open to anyone! http://csedweek.org/    

No two children learn in exactly the same way. Some students learn best when they can see a visual representation of a math concept or manipulate objects to gain better understanding. For these students, the Smartboard provides a visual model that can also be manipulated–a virtual manipulative. Below, one of our fifth graders is using […]

Once we learned that the kindergarten class would be reading The Gingerbread Man, we decided to write stories for the kindergartners which shared some of the same patterns and characteristics as The Gingerbread Man. The fifth graders have been artfully crafting these stories with the audience in mind. Their stories are original, and many of them […]

Thank you so very much for participating in the Foster Care Gift Drive! You have helped to brighten the holidays for so many of our local children.

Here’s what you need to know: Each child should bring a used “present” that might bring some humor and laughter for the recipient. The idea is to recycle something they already have and would love to give away. Please remind your child that we are not talking about something valuable, but something that is taking […]

 Geography Awareness Week As part of the nationwide effort to raise awareness of geography as a scientific discipline, members of the Department of Geography at UCSB visited local schools to give presentations on geographical topics of interest. Sarah Shivers came to our class to help us get a better picture of the importance of water […]

Announcements for the Week of 12/9/13 Upcoming Tests, Projects, & Quizzes Spelling Quiz 14–Friday, 12/13/13 Stories for the kindergarten class, 12/18/13 Upcoming Events Field Trip to Lower School to share  stories–Thursday, 12/19/13 Winter Holiday Party–Friday, 12/20/13 (11:40-12:25–Fifth graders will be participating in a White Elephant Gift Exchange–more details to come.) The fifth graders voted during […]

Homework for the Week of 12/9-12/13 Monday Read for 20 minutes, and record in your reading log. Watch the video for lesson 5.6, and take Cornell notes. (one star point for 1-2)  Practice your math facts using an online review site of your choice. (two star points for 1-3) Write a one-half page letter about […]

Announcements for the Week of 12/2/13 Upcoming Tests, Projects, & Quizzes Spelling Quiz 13–Friday, 12/6/13 Social Studies Test, Chapter 5–Friday, 12/6/13 Upcoming Events Foster Care Gift Drive Assembly–Thursday, 12/5/13 at 11:15 (For those who are participating, please make sure your gift is UNWRAPPED and your card is attached. Bring it to school no later than […]

Homework for the Week of 12/2-12/6 Monday Read for 20 minutes, and record in your reading log. Watch the video for lesson 5.1, and take Cornell notes. (one star point for 1-2) Practice your vocabulary words for Vocabu-Lit Lesson 8 on Spelling City (vocabulary section). (two star points for 1-3) Practice your math facts using […]

The week before Thanksgiving, we wrote appreciations. It is so easy to focus on the things we don’t like, but how great to take a moment to appreciate how very much we have and how many gifts surround us every day. Many students wrote wonderful appreciations for their families as well as the things we […]

Congratulations to Harrison, Keenan, Vincent, and Maria who represented us in the Middle School Geography Bee!