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Friday, September 13, 2019

Back From the Storm

Science In Science this week, we are studying the variables involved in sinking and floating. The students built “boats” and tested the relationships between capacity and passengers. Students are applying their investigation to real world […]
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Our Second Week of School!

Friday, August 30, 2019

Our Second Week of School!

Science-  This week we are finishing up our pendulum investigation. We have learned about the variables that affect the number of swings a pendulum makes within a certain time. We have also extended our learning […]
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Welcome to Another Great Year!

Friday, August 23, 2019

Welcome to Another Great Year!

Sphero We got to see Sphero in action on Wednesday. Students got to brainstorm what they’d like to teach Sphero to do this year. Some of the ideas include “go through a maze,” “jump,” and […]
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Friday, May 31, 2019

Graduation!

How We’ve Grown This week we opened our height strings that we measured ourselves with at the beginning of the year to see how much we’ve grown over the Fifth Grade year. Many students were […]
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Friday, May 24, 2019

Heartbeats!

What’s Your Heartbeat? This week we have been doing experiments in Math to find out what our target heart rate is. We checked the number of heartbeats at a resting state, and then did jumping […]
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Friday, May 17, 2019

Memory Lane

Analyzing the Text! Our 5th Grade students learned about analyzing texts in order to understand events better while diving into their Westward Expansion books. As historians, it is critical for them to know not only […]
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Friday, May 10, 2019

Preparations

Area and Volume! This week mathematicians have been calculating difficult real-world mathematical problems. Students have been making conversions and multiplying dimensions to find the area of an athletic center. Students have also been learning about […]
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Friday, May 3, 2019

Let’s Compost!

Composting Worms Scientists have been studying living systems for the past few weeks. We put together a composting worm habitat and have been observing these worms weekly to see the progress of our “scraps”. Students […]
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Friday, April 26, 2019

We are Historians

Let’s go on a mission! In Centers this week students got to go back in time and see what it was like to be on the Oregon Trail by playing this exciting game with classmates. […]
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Thursday, April 18, 2019

Having Adventures!

Westward Ho! This week, your readers began their study of Westward Movement, and I couldn’t help but be reminded of all the times I played Oregon Trail when I was a child. Although we did […]
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Fifth Grade: Rachael Celia

Rachael is so excited to be joining The Cooper School as the 5th grade teacher. She has been living and teaching in Charleston for the past three years. Rachael received her Bachelor of Science in Education from Samford University. She enjoys sharing with others the excitement of learning and making education come to life with the integration of arts and sciences into the academic subjects. When not in the classroom, Rachael loves being outdoors, reading, ballet, and spending time with her dog, Vermeer.