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Left: Students acted out the Land Bridge Theory. Middle: Students get comfortable during writing workshop.

Right: Students perform an experiment to discover what white light is made out of.

The classroom is set up in such a way to help students learn in a comfortable and academically rich environment.

Students have high expectations and many procedures to help them learn as efficiently as possible!

From left to right: Students work together to build houses for their Native American group.

Middle: Student pairs multiply using base ten blocks to help them understand what "equal groups" actually means.

Middle: Students journey from Europe to the New World in an exercise that keeps sending students to new stations like: "lost at sea", "meeting with the royals to ask for more money", "on course", and "the New World" to show students that the journey to the New World was a long and arduous one.

Right: Students use online resources and trading cards they have already created to compare and contract the European Explorers!

From left to right: Students create models of the planets in our solar system and place them in order from the sun.

Middle: A local author reads her book to the class and motivates them to make their own writing dreams a reality.

Middle: A student uses a graphic organizer online to help her summarize a nonfiction text.

Right: A student runs for Vice President and creates a poster to campaign.

Above: From left to right: Students greet each other every morning by practicing the correct way to shake hands, using grasps, eye contact and confident language; A student shows off his planning page for one of his reasons in his persuasive essay; (top and bottom) Students observe bags of blue water and note why some bags show condensation and others do not. Right: Students present their PowerPoint on the Intolerable Acts while maintaining loud voices, eye contact and good stage presence.