May
Children's Night Art Show
March
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Mrs. Amorosi’s class was learning about the states of matter. They had fun exploring the different states by mixing water with cornstarch and food coloring to make oobleck “slime”.
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January
Here are some pictures from PJ Day! The kids had fun going around collecting donations that totaled $592.50. Yay Mountain Lions!
Students are practicing Spanish numbers to 20 in Mrs. Horan’s 3rd grade Spanish class.
Mrs. Englehart's class gets to finish their cars in STEAM class!
Mrs. Thorndike's students building FM radios.
MAS Hour of Code
6th graders in Mrs. Thorndike/Salamone's Science class researched places around the world that are frequently affected by plate movement beneath the ground. With the analysis of this data, they brainstormed and designed actions that humans can take to mitigate these effects.
Mrs. Meehan's class builds FM radios.
December
ROAR Rally Snapshots- Mountain Lions have a visit from our villains. Superheroes to the rescue!!
5th graders working on Grinch Writing!
| Learning about holidays in breakout rooms in Mrs. Murphy's class. |
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| MAS students learned about different holiday celebrations in an assembly today. Thank you, PTA!! |
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| Building the rock cycle in Mrs. McCurdy's class! |
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November
| Working on context clues with friends in Mrs. Murphy's class! |
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| Mrs. McCurdy's class is all about Saving Our Ugly Feathered Friends! We debated which president did first turkey pardon, and wrote essays about how to best disguise your turkey to keep it off the dinner table. Check out all those great decorated turkeys! |
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| Mansion Avenue PBIS is going strong. The 4th Annual Pancake Breakfast is back and better than ever! Serving over 270 students for their positive ROAR behaviors! |
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| Mrs. Gilbert's science class reconstructing the supercontinent Pangaea. |
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| Mrs. Gilbert and Mrs. Rehn's class doing a GCF and LCM Scavenger Hunt. |
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| Mrs. Gilbert and Mrs. Rehn's class researching and exploring different types of tectonic plate boundaries. |
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| Classifying rocks in Mrs. Murphy's class. |
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| Multiplication fun with friends in Mrs. Murphy's class. |
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| Partner reading in Mrs. Reich's class with our remote friends online. |
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| Grade 6 text tasting to notice informational openings! |
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| Cafeteria friends at Mansion! ROAR! |
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| Here are Mrs. Saunders’ 3rd grade students acting out greetings (Hola= Hello) and also how they are feeling (mal= bad) with their faces and bodies in Spanish class with Mrs. Karageorgis. |
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| Chemical and Physical Weathering in Mrs. McCurdy's Class. |
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| Mrs. Amorosi's STEAM class making cardboard connections. |
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| Three students from Mrs. Saunders class reading to Mrs. Gilbert's class using a PAWS reward. |
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| 5th grade students are learning basic sewing stitches for creative stitchery in art class. |
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| Mrs. Gilbert and Mrs. Rehn's class researching the History of Earth's Layers. Students worked with partners to determine the tectonic plate boundaries and the commonalities of volcanoes and earthquakes along those boundaries. |
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4th grade Mrs. Murphy’s class learned weather conditions in Spanish. They use TPR (total physical response) to act out the weather as they pronounce the phrases.
Below is: It’s sunny (Hace sol), It’s hot (Hace calor) and It’s windy (Hace viento). |
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| Ms. Amorosi's class singing the African piece, "Obwisana" while having a competitive bean bag toss! The concept was working on 1st and 2nd Endings in music where students each took one step back after the 2nd ending. |
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| Mrs. Miller's class was working on finding supporting text evidence in a given passage. |
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| Mrs. Miller's class was conducting a science experiment to explore chemical weathering. |
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| Third graders in Mrs. Saunders’ class building weather structures that can withstand Blizzards, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, or Floods. |
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| 6th grade created a life-size “x/y coordinate grid” on the floor. They plotted points, found the coordinate pairs and calculated the distances to find the perimeter of polygons. |
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| Mr. Rehn’s math class took a multiplication test and all of these students got a hundred! They are now the multiplication kings and queens! |
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| The sixth graders in Mrs. Thorndike's class fused math and science to create an accurately scaled-down version of our solar system on the floor. This group found the distances to be so large between each planet that they needed to continue their model out into the hallway! |
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| The Hurricanes group is taking notes with Mrs. Horan about their storm for their informational writing piece. |
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| Building math literacy with our friends in RTI. |
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| 4th Grade Spanish 4B acting out weather. (It’s windy!) |
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| Here are students in Mr. Rehn’s HR showing off their Día de Los Muertos coloring pages. |
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| Students in third-grade Wilson are drawing illustrations after they decode each word given. During class, they have been focusing on reading and spelling closed-syllable words; with and without digraphs (wh, ch, sh, th, ck). |
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| Here are students from Mrs. Gilbert's class working together as a team playing Quizlet Live! to study for our Space Science Assessment. |
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October
| Working through the Zones of Regulation, our SEL curriculum. |
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| From Mr. Ellinwood's music class, African drumming to The Ghost of John. |
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| Grade 4- Finding textual evidence with our friends |
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| Here's a snapshot of one of our 5th grade Spanish classes learning about the Day of the Dead celebration. |
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| Students watched a model volcano erupt. Students drew pictures of the various different kinds of volcanoes and labeled the parts by using sidewalk chalk. The MAS playground became the Ring of Fire. These are students from Mrs. Miller's Class. |
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| The MAS Advanced band in BAND IN THE STANDS for homecoming! Marching band is awesome! |
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| Grade 4 science project- fun with VOLCANOS! Eruptions of delight from volcanic exploration! |
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| You've seen us read- now watch us do math! Subtracting with Zeros Task Cards in grade 5! |
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| We're working in small reading groups in Grade 3! And do you see our red to celebrate Red Ribbon Week? Proud to be drug free! |
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| Seeing Stars! Check out these super readers! SUPER readers even read during recess! |
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| It's Independent Reading Time, 2:30 - dismissal each day. Mountain Lions are reading, conferencing with teachers, and working on reading fluency. |
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| Media Center- This year we purchased an online Database built for K-6 students called PebbleGo (K-2) and PebbleGoNext (3-6) and students were introduced to it yesterday. They can search for nonFiction information in multiple ways and use different features to increase understanding. It includes ESL support. |
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| Fourth grade students showing growth mindset by solving math puzzles. |
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| Mrs. Gilbert's 6th grade science class creating scaled distance models of the solar system. |
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| Mrs. Gilbert's RTI class creating life size numbers out of popsicle sticks and index cards. |
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Students attended a Super ROAR Rally last month at Mansion Avenue. Together they shared laughs, cheers and learned about
ROAR expectations! Thank you to our SUPER staff for dressing up and putting on an excellent show! |
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| September Students of the Month. SUPERSTUDENTS!! |
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| MAS Advanced Band- Gettin' ready for Band in the Stands on Oct 23rd! |
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September
We are highlighting Mr. Ellinwood's music class today! Students had fun doing an activity- bouncing
basketballs to the rhythm. At the end of the activity, students asked to make a rainbow. So fun! |
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| The MAS picnic tables have arrived. We are excited to have an outdoor cafe! |
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