Category Archives: Social Studies
3rd Trimester Elections
We celebrated that TCAP testing ended by holding our last elections of the school year. Â As a class we had more students running as candidates than any other trimester. Â The four fantastic candidates included Ashlyn, Danielle, Dillon and Mikayla. Â Although … Continue reading
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Global Experiences
After a long school week with 5 days of indoor recess, students were able to learn about something new and special. This was our last week with Yujin visiting from Korea. Â To conclude our time together she prepared a … Continue reading
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Economics Field Trip
Wow!  What an incredible day of learning. Our experiences today really brought all of our “money” learning to life. A special thanks to Mr. Knapp (Paul) for our experience at the Bank of Colorado.  The Egg & I was also “egg-stra” … Continue reading
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Class Elections
Today our class voted on the second trimester class representative (or class president). We had two incredible candidates. Â In fact, it was a very close vote.Kanon Padilla was elected as our class representative for second trimester. Â We hope that Ashlyn … Continue reading
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Student Council and Parent Volunteers
We had great candidates for Student Council. Â The students delivered speeches and should be proud of what they shared. Yesterday we voted and elected a student. Â Victoria McCaffery will be our class representative (or class president) during the first trimester. … Continue reading
2013-2014: Student Council
During the 2013-2014 school year Student Council will be different. Each trimester a new class representative (or class president) will be elected. If you are interested in running for class representative you will need to know the following dates: Monday, … Continue reading
History Fest 2013
We had such a great day of learning. Â Centennial Village had so many activities for us to explore. We’ve been learning about the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. Â Students were able to step into a tipi and imagine this as their … Continue reading
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Class Elections
We have a new Class Representative (or Class President). On Friday, strong speeches were given by all three candidates. Â Our students asked the candidates interesting questions regarding how they would represent our class and “do the job”. All candidates received … Continue reading
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Salt Dough Maps
We’ve been learning about Colorado Geography. Rivers, mountains and plains, oh my! To conclude our unit on Colorado Geography we paired up with the students from Nikki Bridgmon’s class to create physical maps of Colorado. Salt dough maps were formed on … Continue reading
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History Guest Speaker
Last week, we had Betsy Chisolm join us as a History Guest Speaker. Â She shared great history and knowledge about Fur Traders and Trappers adventuring to Colorado. Betsy also created an interactive two day experience (Mon. & Fri.) in order … Continue reading
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