5th Grade Wax Museum

I was SO PROUD of all my Civil War Wax Museum Figures today!!!  Thank you to all the parents, grandparents, teachers, administrators and a special visit from our superintendent and board members!!!  It was a GREAT example of how AWESOME our kids are here at Paine!!!

Thanks for all you do,

Amy Ramer

Literacy in Action!

AR reading, Text feature discussions, Chapter book reading, Review of R.A.C.E.S., Data notebooks and AR test completion all taking place in our 3rd grade literacy classes today!!

Black History Month Read-a-Loud

Students in Mrs. Bivens' 3rd grade class (and many other classes throughout the school) are engaged in their Black History Month read-a-louds! In this picture students are listening to and Mrs. Bivens is reading, Henry's Freedom Box!

ACT Aspire Progress (goal setting)

ACT Aspire Progress displayed in the classroom!

Science in Motion

Third grade students in Mrs. Moore's class have been studying how fossils provide evidence of organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago. The students are loving being paleontologist and  finding the fossils buried deep down. Some are finding shells, shark looking teeth, and several other mysterious things. They discussed that these fossils mostly likely indicate an ocean habitat of long ago.

Hats off to GREAT classroom Instruction!

Students engaged in a new lesson during Art class!

5th Grade Science Stations "at work."

Rocking and Rolling with Reading and Writing

Our students were "Rocking-and-Rolling" with Intervention this morning in all classrooms!! Other students were actively engaged in reading!

Impressive student writing on display on the 3rd grade hall! Mrs. Peters' class engaged in an independent writing assignment. :-) 

Building Google Slides

Fourth grade students in Mrs. Waites class utilize technology by building google slides for their research project presentation!

Monday Goodies! (garden, morning meeting & classroom highlight)

Ms. Wood's class wrapping up Monday Morning Meeting today!!

Students in Mrs. Wall's 4th grade class discussing and grappling with math investigations together!

Snowflakes falling in the garden!!

Parents in the Classroom

This week Mrs. Ekonen's class had several parents visit her classes to talk about how they use math in their daily lives!

Mrs. Shipman came to talk to us about how she uses math in her job as a speech language pathologist.  Although math is one of the things that she does not help children with, she uses math to track the progress of her clients, and she also uses math to schedule appointments and for billing purposes.

 Sergeant Marlow shared with us photos and videos of an aircraft that refuels other aircraft midair!  The kids thought this was very cool!

Sergeant Marlow also had the kids calculate how much gas would be needed to refuel different amounts of aircraft.  He was very impressed with our multiplication and division skills!

Mrs. Bowser spoke with us about area and perimeter and how we might use these skills in our lives outside of school.

She also had the kids calculate the area of sod or dirt needed to fill the space inside a little box that she made for each student.  We had a great time learning about area and perimeter!

Thank you to all the parents that have come in to speak with us so far this month!  We look forward to hearing from more parents this week.

Readers are Leaders Post

Check out the link below to see the great work of one of our very own students!!

"My teacher thought I was smarter than I was, so I was." ~A Six Year Old

Parents in the Classroom this Month!

Parent, Tracy Jackson, from Mrs. Sulser's classroom came to share with students how she uses Math in her career. She works for Scantron assessment company!

Class Visit-Parent Involvement Month

For Parent Volunteer Month, Mrs. Smith asked parents to come in for a visit and share with students how they use math in their professions/daily lives.  Dr. Anjell Edwards, Assistant Principal, at Hewitt Trussville Middle School, shared with students in Mrs. Smith’s math class (Mrs. Peters’ homeroom) about how she uses math while working at the school.  A few things she mentioned were telling time to create class schedules, reading a calendar to plan the schoolwide calendar (Friday Freeze, holidays, and testing dates), and adding subtracting, multiplying, and dividing money when working on the school budget.

5th Grade European Explorers Projects

Mrs. Ramer's 5th grade class works hard on their European Explorers "Who Am I" posters. Their projects will be used during the Guess the Explorer gallery walk!!