Medieval Times in Mrs. Wagstaff's room

Mrs. Wagstaff's class had a GREAT FEAST as part of their studies in Medieval History. The entire room was transformed. The  students got to experience history in such a yummy and exciting way.  What a wonderful way to learn!!

Mrs. Wagstaff

 The lovely  Medieval Lady  and her Knight(?)

Mrs Wagstaff's class enjoying their meal with their guest. Notice : NO SILVERWARE!!

 The Knight reveled - Ms. Medina

 Looks like a castle!! 

Falcons Flying High with Ojai Raptors

 The Ojai Raptor Society paid  Ms. Sweet's (8th) and Ms. Fedele's (6th) classes a visit today. Both classes read the book Hoot by Carl Hiassen as part of their Project Based Learning activities. Ms. Sweet's class learned about  Endangered Species, picked a local species and then presented  their findings during a Gallery Walk that was open to the school last week (see other post). Ms. Fedele's class made a portfolio on their research of endangered animals and made a 30 second ad (on the iPad or on poster) using propaganda to support their animal. They will be dissecting  and labeling owl pellets as the culminating activity with Ms. Todd. The  presenters Rio and Natalie from Ojai Raptors have what they called a Trust Account with the birds, so they sat very nicely on their arms. They  introduced the classes to the following birds:

Newton - a Great Horned Owl

Gavin- a Peregrine Falcon

Rosie- a Red-Tailed Hawk

Micky - a Mississippi Kite

Pixie- a Pygmy Owl

Spooky - a Bard Owl

Endangered Animal Gallery Walk in Ms. Sweet's class

 Mrs. Sweet's class read the book HOOT . They then picked an endangered animal, did research on the animal and  presented their findings during a Gallery Walk ,where the entire school was invited to attend. Some of  the pictures below are when Ms. Estes's 6th grade class came to visit.

Mrs Sweet

Ms Estes's class

Fremont Falcons Talking Trash!!

A group of very inquisitive and creative students from Mr. Lopez's and Ms. Hoskin's 6th grade classes volunteered to be part of the Idea to Impact Challenge affiliated with CSU Channel Islands.

They had to follow the steps given by the university which include:
1. Do a collaborative project that is service - based
2. It solves a real- world problem related to energy and the environment
3. Create a way to teach and share the information they learned

They decided to work on the problem of pollution in our world. They created an entire lesson to teach fellow students about it. They visited Mr. Hansen's class and made Minion pencil cups and cherry blossom pictures that went home as Mother's Day gifts.  Mr; Hanson's students had fun and so did the 6th graders!! The students also made a powerpoint and backboard presentation about their project and showed it off at Mr. Brisbine's Coffee with the Principal Meeting this week.

    Laila Harris - Group Leader
Lily Centeno     Christopher Kiorlinski
Alexandra Camargo         Furio Soldo
                  Richard Suarez

 Mr. Hanson's class doing the Minion Pencil Cup Project

            Chris filming and Laila giving instruction.